{"id":1386909,"date":"2022-03-17T13:02:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386909"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:59:53","slug":"russian-lawmaker-demands-america-return-alaska-as-reparations-for-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-lawmaker-demands-america-return-alaska-as-reparations-for-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Lawmaker Demands America Return Alaska as \u2018Reparations\u2019 for Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-lawmaker-demands-america-return-alaska-as-reparations-for-sanctions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Russian lawmaker Oleg Matveychev vomited a list of \u201creparations\u201d demands for America\u2019s supposedly criminal mistreatment of Russia over the Ukraine invasion d<\/span><span>uring a Russian state television interview on Sunday that included America giving Alaska to Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Matveychev\u2019s conversation with TV host Vladimir Soloviev on his program\u00a0<em>Sunday Evening<\/em>, airing on the state-run Russia-1 network,\u00a0was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/16\/a-russian-lawmaker-wants-alaska-back-good-luck-with-that\/\">translated<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday by the <\/span><i><span>Anchorage Daily News<\/span><\/i><i><span>, <\/span><\/i><span>which did not seem terribly enthused by the proposal:<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cLet\u2019s think about reparations. The harm these sanctions caused us cost money. Return of possessions, including possessions of the Russian Empire, Soviet Union and even parts of Russia that are now occupied by the United States,\u201d Matveychev said in the interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat about the return of Alaska and Fort Ross?\u201d the host asked, a reference to a former Russian outpost on the California coast north of San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is my next point \u2013 recognizing Alaska, Fort Ross and Antarctica,\u201d he said. \u201cWe actually discovered it, so it rightfully belongs to us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cHistorians point out that Russia\u2019s hold on Alaska was not very strong even before the territory was purchased by the U.S., and Russia was eager to get rid of the land in the 19th century as the Russian Empire faced economic downturn and struggled to defend the territory,\u201d the <\/span><i><span>Anchorage Daily News <\/span><\/i><span>drily observed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Those same historians noted that demands for control of Alaska are fairly common fodder among Russian nationalists, who have convinced themselves Washington merely \u201crented\u201d Alaska from Moscow, and can therefore be evicted at Moscow\u2019s convenience. Matveychev did not say whether America would get its security deposit back if it tidies up Alaska and cleans the carpets before it moves out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Alaskan Gov. Mike Dunleavy rejected his state\u2019s annexation into Russia in remarks online.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good luck with that! Not if we have something to say about it. We have hundreds of thousands of armed Alaskans and military members that will see it differently. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ji0Hiza1TE\">https:\/\/t.co\/ji0Hiza1TE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Mike Dunleavy (@GovDunleavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovDunleavy\/status\/1503854713875288065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>As for Fort Ross, it is currently a California state park <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortross.org\/\"><span>billed<\/span><\/a><span> by its tourism department as the treasure of the Sonoma Coast. The <\/span><span>picturesque fort<\/span><span> still boasts a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortross.org\/cannons\">19th-century wheeled cannons<\/a> for its defense. Presumably, Matveychev would want the cannon when America turns the fort over to Moscow, as the Russian military has been reportedly experiencing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ecfr.eu\/article\/combined-farces-russias-early-military-failures-in-ukraine\/\"><span>severe equipment problems<\/span><\/a><span> during its invasion of Ukraine, and can use all the artillery it can get.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Matveychev had some <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/mar\/16\/oleg-matveychev-russian-lawmaker-demands-reparatio\/\"><span>other demands<\/span><\/a><span> for reparations from the United States and Europe \u201cafter Ukraine\u2019s demilitarization is completed,\u201d including \u201cthe return of all medals that have been unlawfully taken from our sportsmen during all Olympic games, as well as the extradition of Rodchenkov, along with the extradition of multiple other criminals we\u2019ll want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.nbcsports.com\/2020\/08\/10\/grigory-rodchenkov-russia-doping-whistlelblower\/\"><span>Grigory Rodchenkov<\/span><\/a><span> is the whistleblower who exposed Russia\u2019s gigantic state-sponsored blood doping scheme at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Rodchenkov lives in hiding in the United States because he claims to have received assassination threats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia was allowed to continue competing in international sporting events under cosmetic restrictions, such as not being able to wear the Russian flag on team uniforms, and was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/10\/russia-already-banned-from-olympics-for-doping-caught-doping-again\/\"><span>caught doping again<\/span><\/a><span> at the disastrous 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Matveychev also reportedly\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/russia-alaska-oleg-matveychev-war-b2036967.html\"><span>demanded<\/span><\/a><span> \u201cthe lifting of all sanctions\u201d and \u201cthe dissolution of NATO\u201d as war booty after Russia conquers Ukraine and threatened to hold \u201cmilitary tribunals\u201d for Ukrainian \u201cterrorists,\u201d including both current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his predecessor Petro Poroshenko, who Zelensky defeated in the 2019 election as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/04\/01\/ukraines-tv-president-is-dangerously-pro-russian\/\">pro-Russian<\/a>\u201d candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maveychev reportedly rejected the idea of using nuclear weapons on Ukraine \u2013 \u201cWhat for? We can take them down without it,\u201d he scoffed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian lawmaker Oleg Matveychev vomited a list of \u201creparations\u201d demands for America\u2019s supposedly criminal mistreatment of Russia over the Ukraine invasion during a Russian state television interview on Sunday that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}