Russian proposes 112km Bering Strait tunnel with Boring tech

A senior Russian official this week proposed building a roughly 70 mile undersea rail and cargo tunnel linking Siberia and Alaska, suggesting the project could be built with technology from Elon Musk's The Boring Company. The idea, floated by Russian presidential aide Kirill Dmitriev, drew public interest from US President Donald Trump on Friday during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump said the proposal was "interesting," and Zelenskyy responded, "I am not happy with this."

Dmitriev, who leads the Russian Direct Investment Fund, posted a map and details of the proposal on social media, saying a traditional engineering estimate would place costs near 65 billion US dollars but that tunneling technology from The Boring Company could cut those costs to under 8 billion and complete the work in about eight years. He described the connection as a 112 kilometre link that could unlock joint resource exploration and urged international cooperation, writing, "Lets build a future together" and using the phrase "PutinTrump Tunnel" to describe the concept.

The proposal revives a long-standing idea to bridge the Bering Strait, a stretch of water about 51...