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"Russia plans to build the world's longest tunnel, a transport and
pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part of a $65 billion
project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and electricity from
Siberia.

The project, which Russia is coordinating with the U.S. and Canada, would
take 10 to 15 years to complete, Viktor Razbegin, deputy head of industrial
research at the Russian Economy Ministry, told reporters in Moscow today.
State organizations and private companies in partnership would build and
control the route, known as TKM-World Link, he said.

A 6,000-kilometer (3,700-mile) transport corridor from Siberia into the
U.S. will feed into the tunnel, which at 64 miles will be more than twice
as long as the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel between the U.K.
and France, according to the plan. The tunnel would run in three sections
to link the two islands in the Bering Strait between Russia and the U.S.

``This will be a business project, not a political one,'' Maxim Bystrov,
deputy head of Russia's agency for special economic zones, said at the
media briefing. Russian officials will formally present the plan to the
U.S. and Canadian governments next week, Razbegin said.

The Bering Strait tunnel will cost $10 billion to $12 billion, and the rest
of the investment will be spent on the entire transport corridor, the plan
estimates.

``The project is a monster,'' Yevgeny Nadorshin, chief economist with Trust
Investment Bank in Moscow, said in an interview. ``The Chinese are crying
out for our commodities and willing to finance the transport links, and
we're sending oil to Alaska.'' "


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