The Kremlin has the northernmost tunnel lungodel world. To connect Russia to the Usa

It is worth building a 104 km tunnel under the Bering Strait and then employ 14 days by train from Moscow to New York? It seems Yes, at least for the Kremlin. The Russian authorities have approved a project that has ancient origins, since already more than a century ago Nicholas II wanted to connect the extreme point of the Russian Empire with Alaska. The cost, staggering in time of crisis, will be 70 billion euros, over fifteen years.

Travel inconvenience to passengers, the positive impact would be used for the transport of goods, avoiding the sea and greatly reducing costs. Once built what will be the world's longest tunnel, the project is to create a railway line London-Moscow-New York. A journey of other times in fifteen days would bring passengers from Britain to the United States. x and given the colossal size of the work, one can hardly say that it is an exaggeration.

Moscow is to push on the accelerator, certain it is that the economic fallout would be much more advantageous for Russia and the United States. That's why, then, before shouting the miracle engineering and pioneering would be good to hear what you think of Washington, as the economic situation is not sure of the best and an investment like that now, in these conditions, it seems, quite frankly, out of reach.

And the first signs of caution also arrive from England. Stephen Dalziel, head of the Chamber of Commerce anglo-Russian, believes that British investors are not willing to invest money in before the actual start of the work. With stock markets collapsing, titles that become waste paper, companies that have decimated the value of their actions, such as giving them wrong?

It remains to understand if the project is already something concrete, or if it is not, on the contrary, an advertisement too ambitious escaped to some local official of the Russian Far East. Sure, it seems that Dmitri Medvedev is willing to investigate the matter, because presidential elections are not far away and any attempt to counter the propaganda machine putiniana is well accepted.

It will take many years, before seeing a train going in the tunnel to Uelen (Siberia) and leave a name (Alaska). But something tells us that the idea is still too pretentious for a world that has other problems to deal with.