Russian state TV revives effort to reclaim Alaska from U.S.

Apanelist on Russian state-run TV recently revived an effort for Moscow to reclaim Alaska from the U.S.

On Friday, the Russian Media Monitor YouTube channel, run by Julia Davis, a columnist for the Daily Beast, posted a video from the Russia-1 state-run news channel, where Yevgeny Satanovsky, the president of Russia's Institute of the Middle East, can be heard speaking about the Congress of Vienna.

"The Congress of Vienna [of 1814-1815] conceded that Warsaw belongs to the Russian Empire. The Congress of Vienna conceded that Finland belongs to the Russian Empire. I agree to return not to the Helsinki boundaries, but at least to the borders of the Congress of Vienna," Satanovsky said.