Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev – Wiki CommonsUS and Russia linked at the top of the world.From June 3 to 6, Russia is holding the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that hey describe as a ‘key platform for dialogue between governments, business and the expert community’.Even though smoke billows can be seen at a distance where Ukraine sent kamikaze drones against Oil facilities, the forum is ongoing – and reportedly will host an agreement between the US and Russia on a project that is bound to literally unite the two countries.UPDATE: The signing will NOT be between Russia and the US, but with the company designing the tunnel.Bering Strait breakthrough: Russia, US take huge step closer to Alaska tunnel megaprojectRussia and the US will sign an agreement on June 5 to continue designing a tunnel beneath the Bering Strait, RDIF chief Kirill Dmitriev said at SPIEF.“The tunnel will be built,”… pic.twitter.com/N1y9TKMHVh— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) June 4, 2026Kommersant reported (translated from the Russian):“The tunnel through the Bering Strait, which will connect Russia and Alaska, will be built, and an agreement to continue the design will be signed on June 5 at SPIEF. This was stated by the special representative of the [Russian] president, the head of the RDIF Kirill Dmitriev.‘As for the tunnel. We will have news tomorrow: we are signing an agreement that we will continue the design of the tunnel. There will be a tunnel’, said Mr. Dmitriev (quoted on the Zvezda TV channel). According to him, this ‘will be one of the big infrastructure projects between our countries’.”Alaska-Chukotka tunnel design agreement to be signed on SPIEF sidelines — Putin’s special aide Dmitriev to Zvezda NewsThe ‘Putin-Trump Tunnel’ will go across Bering Strait, cost no more than $8BN and take less than 8 years to build pic.twitter.com/uyxC3RYFrT— RT (@RT_com) June 4, 2026Athens News reported:“We are talking about a tunnel under Bering Strait – between Russian Chukotka and American Alaska. The idea is old: such a transition was first discussed seriously at the end of the 19th century. After the breakup [of the] USSR negotiations between Russia And USA periodically revived, but after 2014, annexation Crimea and a sharp collapse in relations, the project actually went into political permafrost.Now it was brought into the world again – already against the backdrop of new contacts between Moscow And Washington after returning Donald Trump to power. For the Kremlin, this is a convenient picture: not sanctions, not Ukraine, not isolation, but a supposedly big infrastructure deal with America.” BREAKING NEWS !THE BERING STRAIT TUNNEL !RUSSIA TO USA !Russia and the USA will sign an agreement on a tunnel across the Bering Strait tomorrow, – DmitrievThe countries will continue the design of the tunnel between Russia and the USA.”Tomorrow we are… https://t.co/lQl2sbg6q6 pic.twitter.com/UKvBIpgLGy— (@SMO_VZ) June 4, 2026UPDATE:Read more from April 2025:Top Russian Negotiator Dmitriev Visits DC, Goes on a Media Blitz, Touts Progress in Peace Negotiations: ‘The Trump Administration Prevented World War 3’ (VIDEOS)/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i