Russian nationalists are calling for Alaska to be returned to the Kremlin's control 150 years after the land was sold to America.

Sergey Aksyonov, the prime minister of Crimea, bemoaned the sale on TV earlier this month while foreign minister Sergey Lavrov admitted in a recent interview that the anniversary will cause 'diverse emotions' among Russians.

The land deal, which saw Alaska pass to American control in 1867 for the price of $7.2million, is also a popular topic among Russian bloggers who have called for a referendum to be held on whether the state should be handed back.





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4375868/Russian-nationalists-want-Alaska-Moscow-s-hands.html

lalasticlala, mynd44

Wait ooo..
Am I "Festus Commentus" on Explorers' Thread so.??
....
Modified...
Their request is just similar to someone wooing an ex girlfriend and proposing for marriage at the same time of wooing..
The answer will be a undeliberated NO..

Secretary of State William Seward (second left) signed papers purchasing Alaska for $7.2million from Russian diplomat Eduard de Stoeckl (third right)in 1867.

Russian nationalists argue that the payment they received (pictured) was too little worth about $123million in today's money or that the country never received it.

Day dream of the highest order. The thought USA is some kind of Ukraine or what

Another dose of satire for nairaland Russian -cocksuckers to masturbate on. In 1,2,3 they're gonna tell you how Russia will nuke Alaska with their imaginary Satan 2

Russia never Big Enough? Why sold in the first place.



USA will not Let go of Alaska.

$7.2bn and you have it back

Alaska vs U.S. in size.

Wishful thinking....

Explorers:
Secretary of State William Seward (second left) signed papers purchasing Alaska for $7.2million from Russian diplomat Eduard de Stoeckl (third right)in 1867.

The czars are responsible for this.
If Russia can buy it for anything then
let the deal begin.

Explorers:
Alaska vs U.S. in size.

Just negodu. They want to take all of US. Let them come to naija, we have aso rock, nass that we want to give away, they can also negotiate for bornu and some nothern states.

jmichlins:
$7.2bn and you have it back

The money is extremely small. If that's the price then Russian billionaires would gladly buy not to talk of Russia as a whole.
Moreover, US will not sell it. Alaska is a fortune for US

Hence the reason for Trump putin's support.

anotherydz:

The money is extremely small. If that's the price then Russian billionaires would gladly buy not to talk of Russia as a whole.
Moreover, US will not sell it. Alaska is a fortune for US

fortune like how

Do lecture me, how many billionaires Russia get sef

ichommy:
Russia never Big Enough? Why sold in the first place.



I dont think USA will Let go of Alaska.

They won't let go, that Alaska is big, far bigger that many countries in the world 663,268 sq mi(1,717,856 km2).

The state is majorly into travel, tourism, boat cruise and sight seeing.

Its travel industry generates billions of dollars for the US and almost 40,000 jobs for the country.

The state is so beautiful, amazing, beautiful mountains, glaciers but the weather is too harsh and sun is rare during winter.

9:am during winter, head lamps will still be on, saw it on Alaska Vlogs on youtube.

I saw another video during summer in Anchorage, 11pm looks like our 6:30 pm.

Explorers:


They won't let go, that Alaska is big, far bigger that many countries in the world 663,268 sq mi(1,717,856 km2).

The state is majorly into travel, tourism, boat cruise and sight seeing.

Its travel industry generates billions of dollars for the US and almost 40,000 jobs for the country.

The country is so beautiful, amazing, beautiful mountains, glaciers but the weather is too harsh and sun is rare during winter.

9:am during winter, head lamps will still be on, saw it on Alaska Vlogs on youtube.

I saw another video during summer in Anchorage, 11pm looks like our 6:30 pm.

GBAM!


Alaska Big Sha, Extremely Cold Region too.

Explorers:


They won't let go, that Alaska is big, far bigger that many countries in the world 663,268 sq mi(1,717,856 km2).

The state is majorly into travel, tourism, boat cruise and sight seeing.

Its travel industry generates billions of dollars for the US and almost 40,000 jobs for the country.

The country is so beautiful, amazing, beautiful mountains, glaciers but the weather is too harsh and sun is rare during winter.

9:am during winter, head lamps will still be on, saw it on Alaska Vlogs on youtube.

I saw another video during summer in Anchorage, 11pm looks like our 6:30 pm.

Well done Oga Explorers. How madam? Chai, I hope you don't put her in a competition for your attention with your research o. If I ever go to who want to be a millionaire, na your number I go drop for 'call a friend' lifeline. Tuale baba

Explorers:


They won't let go, that Alaska is big, far bigger that many countries in the world 663,268 sq mi(1,717,856 km2).

The state is majorly into travel, tourism, boat cruise and sight seeing.

Its travel industry generates billions of dollars for the US and almost 40,000 jobs for the country.

The country is so beautiful, amazing, beautiful mountains, glaciers but the weather is too harsh and sun is rare during winter.

9:am during winter, head lamps will still be on, saw it on Alaska Vlogs on youtube.

I saw another video during summer in Anchorage, 11pm looks like our 6:30 pm.

you be walking and living encyclopedia biko

Big ups

Comrades! Even though I do not like this nutjob called “Explorers” - I think we should all follow him in order to tackle his threads on time.

It seems the MODS always push his threads to the front page & I have already sent a memo to Alexander Bortnikov (Director of FSB) to put the asshole on surveillance

The guy above me is another Putin asslicker

Gbengadaniel12:
The guy above me is another Putin asslicker

He is one of many Pootin a*s lickers on nairaland. The only problem is that not one of them can survive in that hell hole.

Explorers:


They won't let go, that Alaska is big, far bigger that many countries in the world 663,268 sq mi(1,717,856 km2).

The state is majorly into travel, tourism, boat cruise and sight seeing.

Its travel industry generates billions of dollars for the US and almost 40,000 jobs for the country.

The country is so beautiful, amazing, beautiful mountains, glaciers but the weather is too harsh and sun is rare during winter.

9:am during winter, head lamps will still be on, saw it on Alaska Vlogs on youtube.

I saw another video during summer in Anchorage, 11pm looks like our 6:30 pm.

Explorer you are right in your assertion that America will never let go of Alaska. The only part you get wrong is that Alaska is a State in America not a separate country. Alaska is one of the Fifty States that constitutes United States of America.

Lucasbalo:
Explorer you are right in your assertion that America will never let go of Alaska. The only part you get wrong is that Alaska is a State in America not a separate country. Alaska is one of the Fifty States that constitutes United States of America.

He never said Alaska is a country. Read the comment again.

ALASKA HAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST CRUDE OIL DEPOSITS IN THE WORLD. AMERICA HASN'T EVEN TOUCHED THAT AREA YET.

SO IF RUSSIA CAN COUGH OUT LET'S SAY £700 TRILLION BRITISH POUNDS, THEN AMERICA MIGHT BE WILLING TO CONSIDER TO TALK.

The 2007 gross state product was $44.9 billion, 45th in the nation. Its per capita personal income for 2007 was $40,042, ranking 15th in the nation. According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Alaska had the fifth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 6.75 percent.[68] The oil and gas industry dominates the Alaskan economy, with more than 80% of the state's revenues derived from petroleum extraction. Alaska's main export product (excluding oil and natural gas) is seafood, primarily salmon, cod, Pollock and crab.

Agriculture represents a very small fraction of the Alaskan economy. Agricultural production is primarily for consumption within the state and includes nursery stock, dairy products, vegetables, and livestock. Manufacturing is limited, with most foodstuffs and general goods imported from elsewhere.

Employment is primarily in government and industries such as natural resource extraction, shipping, and transportation. Military bases are a significant component of the economy in the Fairbanks North Star, Anchorage and Kodiak Island boroughs, as well as Kodiak. Federal subsidies are also an important part of the economy, allowing the state to keep taxes low. Its industrial outputs are crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold, precious metals, zinc and other mining, seafood processing, timber and wood products. There is also a growing service and tourism sector. Tourists have contributed to the economy by supporting local lodging.

Alaska has vast energy resources, although its oil reserves have been largely depleted. Major oil and gas reserves were found in the Alaska North Slope (ANS) and Cook Inlet basins, but according to the Energy Information Administration, by February 2014 Alaska had fallen to fourth place in the nation in crude oil production after Texas, North Dakota, and California.[69][70] Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope is still the second highest-yielding oil field in the United States, typically producing about 400,000 barrels per day (64,000 m3/d), although by early 2014 North Dakota's Bakken Formation was producing over 900,000 barrels per day (140,000 m3/d).[71] Prudhoe Bay was the largest conventional oil field ever discovered in North America, but was much smaller than Canada's enormous Athabasca oil sands field, which by 2014 was producing about 1,500,000 barrels per day (240,000 m3/d) of unconventional oil, and had hundreds of years of producible reserves at that rate.[72]

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline can transport and pump up to 2.1 million barrels (330,000 m3) of crude oil per day, more than any other crude oil pipeline in the United States. Additionally, substantial coal deposits are found in Alaska's bituminous, sub-bituminous, and lignite coal basins. The United States Geological Survey estimates that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet (2,420 km3) of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on the Alaskan North Slope.[73] Alaska also offers some of the highest hydroelectric power potential in the country from its numerous rivers. Large swaths of the Alaskan coastline offer wind and geothermal energy potential as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska

Wow. I doubt this will see the light of the day. I hope Mexico won't request for the four states initially part of Mexico

ollah2:
Wow. I doubt this will see the light of the day. I hope Mexico won't request for the four states initially part of Mexico

MEXICO WILL SELL THE WHOLE OF MEXICO ASAP IF USA MAKES AN OFFER TO BUY

normaljenny:


MEXICO WILL SELL THE WHOLE OF MEXICO ASAP IF USA MAKES AN OFFER TO BUY

You no nothing

Lucasbalo:
He is one of many Pootin a*s lickers on nairaland. The only problem is that not one of them can survive in that hell hole.

they even hate Mr explorer, cause to them he's pro-American or pro _west

Gbengadaniel12:
they even hate Mr explorer, cause to them he's pro-American or pro _west

They are non entities. They don't even count and none of them can last a year living in Russia. Russia is being ruled by evil cabal headed by the Diminitive and Despotic Pootin. Russians will rise up against him in due time.

freeDR:
He never said Alaska is a country. Read the comment again.

He actually did, you read the comment again

Lucasbalo:
They are non entities. They don't even count and none of them can last a year living in Russia. Russia is being ruled by evil cabal headed by the Diminitive and Despotic Pootin. Russians will rise up against him in due time.

bruh you are taking things too personal. You are spewing the same thing the US government have been doing for ages, inciting the masses to fight their government while demonizing their leaders which always lead to chaos and anarchy in such territories causing more havoc than good (Libya, Ukraine and Syria) to the populace who had the illusion that they were fighting for a better future.

You need to desists from this line as it is getting stale.

Back to Op, well i heard that Alaska was exchange with the America for a part of Siberia (don't know how true it is as i have not verified that) but those Russian Nationalist are living in fool's paradise to believe that they can get Alaska from US in such perilous time.

I believe it is just a mere wishful thinking as the government cannot afford the luxury of entertaining such ideas.