US authorities should take the island of Wrangel from Russia, located in the Arctic Ocean between the East Siberian and Chukchi seas, writes the publication The Wall Street Journal.
According to the authors of the article located on the island, the Russian military base may become a threat to the US sovereignty. Russia has been holding the island since 1924, it must belong to the United States, American journalists say.
In response to the publication, State Duma deputy Fedot Tumusov said that America would not receive “not a heel of the Russian land.” “In the Constitution, it is specifically written in the latest amendments that we should not give a single square meter of land,” Russian media quoted Tumusov. According to him, “it will be a state crime. There can be no talk of this. “