Kirill Dmitriev, director of the Russian Fund for Direct Investments (RFPI), turned to American billionaire Elon Musk on website X with a proposal to build an underground tunnel under the Bering Strait connecting Chukotka in Russia and Alaska in the United States. The underground tunnel, according to his proposal, would be called “Putin-Trump”.
“Imagine a tunnel connecting the United States and Russia, America and Afro-Eurasia – the Putin-Trump Tunnel, a 70-mile (112 km) link symbolizing unity. (…) Let's build the future together! (…) It's time to do more and connect the continents for the first time in human history. It's time to connect Russia and the United States, Dmitriev wrote.
According to his calculations, the cost of such a project would be $65 billion. (PLN 237 billion), but using the technology of the Boring Company – an American infrastructure and tunneling company founded by Musk in 2016 – it could be built for less than USD 8 billion. (PLN 29 billion).
Dmitriev promised that RDIF, which had previously invested in the construction of the first road-rail bridge between Russia's Blagoveshchensk and China's Heihe on the Amur River, was ready to participate in the financing of the tunnel. The head of RDIF predicts that such a project can be completed in less than eight years.
He added that “the dream of connecting the United States and Russia across the Bering Strait” has existed for a long time and that RDIF has analyzed existing proposals and will support the most realistic one. Among them is, for example, the USA-Canada-Russia-China railway.
Putin did not comment on this proposal, Donald Trump commented on it during his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.
“That's interesting, I'd have to think about it,” he said. — Tunnel from Russia to Alaska… that's interesting.
What was Dmitriev inspired by?
Dmitriev was a member of the Russian delegation to talks with the US, who traveled to Alaska with Putin in August. In February 2025, he was appointed Putin's special representative for investment and economic cooperation with foreign countries.
On October 15, he took part in the transfer of Soviet archival documents regarding the assassination of the 35th US President John Kennedy. They were given to Anna Pauline Lune, a member of the House of Representatives of Congress from the Republican Party. She stated that the United States Congress had unsuccessfully tried to obtain secret KGB documents numbering 350 pages already in the 1990s, and now access to them was granted “for the first time in history”.
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According to Dmitriev, the files mention proposal to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait named after John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev.
Florida congresswoman, Republican Anna Paulina Luna, known for her support for Donald Trump's policies, supports negotiations with Russia. She said she planned to meet Dmitriev at the end of October.
At the same time, she repeatedly criticized the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky. Her allegations included claims that she allegedly “banned the activities of the Orthodox Church” in the country and that she transferred approximately $50 million every month. (PLN 182 million) to a bank account in Saudi Arabia.
What the published documents say
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna published the files she received – it is a collection of archival documents titled “The Assassination of US President JF Kennedy and Soviet-American Relations” published in Moscow in 2025, edited by the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, Sergei Naryshkin.
The collection contains declassified documents from Russian archives covering the period from June 1963 to September 1964. They include, among others, information about Soviet-American relations on the eve of Kennedy's assassination, the reaction of the Soviet authorities to this assassination, the trip of Anastas Mikoyan, a member of the Soviet authorities, to the United States for the funeral, and his talks with the new president. Lyndon Johnson and other Kennedy-related topics.
It is actually included in the appendix to the book handwritten diagram of the Bering Strait Tunnel between the USSR and Alaska published as “document No. 12-2”. The drawing says, “a peace bridge can and should be built between Alaska and Russia immediately.”
In January this year, shortly after the presidential inauguration, Trump signed an executive order releasing other documents related to the Kennedy assassination. The collection included 2,182 files, including photocopies of typescripts and handwritten notes with a volume of approximately 63,000 pages. However, the media noticed that almost all of these materials had already been made public.
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