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  • 10 months ago
On Monday, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel responded to reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin is claiming the sale of Alaska to the U.S. was "illegitimate," and ordered his government to allocate funds towards looking into the nation's former real estate abroad.
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00:00 Putin apparently today signed an order declaring a 1983 sale of Alaska to the United States as
00:07 "illegitimate." Do you have a response to that?
00:10 Let me just understand that he signed something today that said the sale of Alaska is illegitimate?
00:18 Well, I think I can, I speak for all of us in the in the in the U.S. government to say that
00:24 certainly he is not getting it back. So.
00:28 So...

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