Trump and Putin, the submarine agreement for a tunnel between Russia and the United States

“A tunnel will be built. And it will be one of the largest infrastructure projects between our two countries”he commented, speaking to journalists. A US delegation led by Rosney Mims Cook, president of the Administration’s Fine Arts Commission, is present at the Forum for the first time in years. Dmitriev spoke about an agreement reached with an American consultancy company specializing in park design. Dmitriev had already proposed the project for a tunnel under the strait last October, speaking of an infrastructure costing 65 billion dollars, which can be reduced to eight, with technology from Elon Musk’s Boring.

Hockey diplomacy

Relations between Russia and the United States are also managed on ice. More than seven years later, the national teams of the two countries will once again face each other in a friendly ice hockey match on July 1st in Moscow. The event takes on particular significance in light of the exclusion of Russian teams from international competitions decided in 2022, after the start of the invasion of Ukraine. The announcement was made by the president and CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham Russia), Robert Agee, during the “Russia-USA: Dialogue of Cultures” session of the St. Petersburg Forum. The meeting will take place in conjunction with the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States, which occurs on July 4th. The Moscow Times reports it.

The initiative arose from talks held in March 2025 between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who discussed the possibility of organizing a series of friendly matches between Russian and American teams in the two countries. “We hope this will help melt the ice that has formed between us,” Agee said. The manager explained that the match will be played at the ice rink of the Luzhniki Olympic complex and will also see the participation of the Russian star of the National Hockey League (NHL), Alexander Ovechkin, whose support for Putin is known. The teams will be made up of a mix of professional and amateur players.