Dmitriev Says, U.S. and Russia Should Commit to Economic Cooperation

Aug. 11—Writing on his X page Aug. 9, Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO and special presidential envoy for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Donald Trump, who will be meeting in Alaska on Aug. 15, should commit their countries to developing cooperation in the Arctic and beyond.

“Born as Russian America—Orthodox roots, forts, fur trade—Alaska echoes those ties and makes the U.S. an Arctic nation. Let’s partner on the environment, infrastructure, and energy in the Arctic and beyond,” Dmitriev wrote. Dmitriev included with his post a picture of railroad tracks extending in the direction of Alaska’s high mountains.

Also posted in the comments section of Dmitriev’s X account is a simple post by the Schiller Institute’s Daniel Burke, “Time for the Bering Strait Tunnel,” to which Dmitriev responded: “Possibly yes.”

On his Telegram channel, Dmitriev warned that there would be efforts to derail the Trump-Putin summit. “A number of countries that are interested in continuing the conflict, will make enormous efforts (involving provocations and disinformation) to disrupt the upcoming meeting between President Putin and President Trump,” he wrote, according to TASS.

It was Dmitriev who greeted Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, when his plane landed in Moscow earlier this week for his meeting with President Putin. At that time Witkoff commented: “We see vast potential for mutually beneficial collaboration, including with U.S. investors in Arctic projects, rare earth metals and infrastructure development,” he said.