Hopes revived for tunnel linking Russia and Alaska

An idea first mulled in the czarist era – a tunnel under the Bering Strait – is being revived as part of an ambitious project to build a 3,700-mile transport corridor linking Russia with Alaska.

Billed by backers as the key to developing Russia’s Far East – remote and sparsely populated but rich in energy and minerals – the £32 billion project will be the focus of a conference in Moscow on Tuesday, organisers said in a statement this week.