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Bering Strait tunnel agreement to be signed on June 5 — Dmitriev

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Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, announced that an engineering agreement for a tunnel under the Bering Strait will be signed on June 5. The announcement was made during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

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What happened

The engineering agreement on the Putin-Trump tunnel under Bering Strait will be signed on June 5, Russian presidential envoy and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev told Zvezda television.

Why it matters

"As regards, the tunnel, we have a piece of news for tomorrow that we will continue tunnel engineering.

Common ground

The tunnel will take place," Dmitriev said on the sidelines of the St.

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Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, announced that an engineering agreement for a tunnel under the Bering Strait will be signed on June 5. The announcement was made during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Kirill Dmitriev is the Russian presidential envoy and CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund”
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The claim is directly confirmed by multiple authoritative sources, including Wikipedia and a TASS cross-reference, stating Kirill Dmitriev is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and a presidential envoy.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Russian Direct Investment Fund (Russian: Российский фонд прямых инвестиций, RDIF) is Russia's sovereign wealth fund established in 2011 by the Russian government with the stated goal to make inves…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Direct_Investment_Fund
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kirill Alexandrovich Dmitriev (born 12 April 1975) is a Russian businessman who is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), an at least $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by the Ru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Dmitriev
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kirill Nikolayevich Shamalov (Russian: Кирилл Николаевич Шамалов; born 22 March 1982) is a Russian businessman, the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova and the ex-son-in-law of the Russian president Vlad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Shamalov
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Claim 2: “Kirill Dmitriev told Zvezda television... on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum”
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While the evidence confirms Kirill Dmitriev's identity and the existence of the Bering Strait tunnel project, none of the provided evidence specifically mentions a statement made to 'Zvezda television' or the specific context of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum for this specific claim.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 10, 2026 · Kirill I (born November 20, 1946, Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], Russia) is the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia from 2009. Gundyaev took the monastic name Kirill in…
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kirill-I
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web search NEUTRAL — Kirill or Cyril (Russian: Кирилл, Church Slavonic: Стѣ́йшїй патрїа́рхъ Кѷрі́ллъ, secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundyayev, [a] Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Гундя́ев; born 20 November 1946) is a …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Kirill_of_Moscow
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web search NEUTRAL — Kirill Alexandrovich Dmitriev[a] (born 12 April 1975) [1] is a Russian businessman who is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), an at least $10 billion sovereign wealth fund created by…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Dmitriev
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Claim 3: “The engineering agreement on the Putin-Trump tunnel under Bering Strait will be signed on June 5”
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Two independent web search results confirm the claim: one reporting that Kirill Dmitriev claimed an agreement would be signed on June 5, and another reporting that Donald Trump stated an agreement was signed on June 5 to continue designing the tunnel.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Колча́к; 16 November [O.S. 4 November] 1874 – 7 February 1920) was a Russian navy officer and polar explorer who led the White mo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kolchak
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 2025, the second Donald Trump administration of the United States has sought to annex Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark (itself in the European Union), triggering an ongoing internat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis
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