From 1799 to 1867, Alaska was governed by the Russian-American Company, a parastatal trading colonial organization of the Russian Empire.
The US State Department said that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not recognize the sale of the Alaska region to the United States by the Russian Empire as illegal in the 19th century, in particular, he will not be able to annex it to Russia . . US State Department Deputy Press Secretary Vedant Patel said this on Monday, January 22, Ukrinform reports.
So, he answered questions from reporters about Putin’s intentions to recognize the sale of Alaska as “illegal.”
“I think I can speak for all of us in the US government in saying that the Russian Federation is definitely not going to give Alaska back,” Patel said.
It is known that from 1799 to 1867, Alaska was governed by the Russian-American Company, a semi-governmental trading colonial organization of the Russian Empire. They decided to sell Alaska after the Crimean War. The treaty selling Alaska to the United States of Russia was signed in March 1867 in Washington.
The United States began urgent negotiations on Russian assets. In particular, the Joe Biden administration is pressing Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan to prepare a strategy for using frozen money on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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