One of the top interlocutors between the Kremlin and the Trump administration is Russia’s special economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev, who argued that the decision to have the meeting in Alaska was symbolically significant. The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, roughly two cents per acre.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that peace negotiations in Alaska between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be “a positive step forward.” “If, in fact, an agreement can be negotiated which does not compromise what the Ukrainians feel that they need,