Russian MP Oleg Matveychev made another unrealistic demand on the state channel - the United States must return Alaska and the historic settlement in California. In addition, the States are obliged to pay reparations to Russia for the devastating sanctions imposed by the Americans, which threw Moscow's economy into a tailspin.. All this he proposed to “expose” to America after the “completion of the demilitarization” of Kyiv, Fox News reports..

Demands include the return of Alaska, which the US purchased from the Russian Empire in 1867, and the former Russian settlement of Fort Ross, California, 90 miles north of San Francisco..

“We need to think about redressing the damage caused by the sanctions and the war itself, because it also costs money, and we have to return it,” Matveychev said in an interview..

He also called for "

After that, he was asked if he meant Alaska and Fort Ross.

" And also Antarctica,” he said.. "

According to the State Department, the sale of Alaska marked the end of the Russian Empire's commercial expansion and efforts to settle the U.S. Pacific coast.. The territory was sold to the US government for $7.2 million..

The Russian colony of Fort Ross was founded on the Sonoma coast of California in 1812..

When nothing worked and the colony became financially unsustainable, it was sold to the Americans in 1841..

Matveychev's demands, of course, will be ignored.

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Recall that the Russian aviation industry, which was on the verge of a halt due to sanctions and demands from foreign leasing companies to return aircraft, began to use aircraft without the consent of lessors and without airworthiness certificates..

That is stealing someone else's property.