Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a government agency to search for properties abroad that belonged to the Soviet Union and even the Russian Empire. The state news agency recently reported this “Tass”.
Putin signed two decrees related to his order on January 18. A decree enables the provision of means for searching, registering property rights and the “legal protection” of property, like that “Tass”. The other decree provides funds for the maintenance and management of the properties. The documents did not reveal how much money the Russian government is allocating for this purpose.
This also means land that belonged to the times of the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union: including Alaska.
Sell as “bargain”
The largest US state is also one of the most sparsely populated. The area belonged to the Russian Empire until 1867. But inaccessible nature and lack of money prompted the tsar to sell the huge area. The USA paid $7.2 million for Alaska at the time – a ridiculous price.
In 2014, Putin once spoke about the deal in a television program. At that time he called the sale a “bargain”but also said people shouldn’t get upset about it because, the Kremlin leader continued: “Russia is a northern country, 70 percent of its territory is in the north and far north. Alaska isn’t in the southern hemisphere, is it? It’s cold out there too.”
“Exact parameters unclear”
A Telegram post by a military blogger states that after Alaska, parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia will become Russian again “possession” could be explained. Even the London one “Institute for the Study of War” deals with the new list of old goods, but notes that “the precise parameters of what constitutes current or historical Russian property are unclear”.
However, the Kremlin could do that “protective power” use of its claimed property to advance mechanisms that ultimately aim at destabilization, it is said.
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