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Questionmarktarius posted...

$40k is way better than I expected for modern Russia.

Also it was sold off long before Tzarist Russia or the Soviet Union were a thing.
Alaska was barely Russia.

Even in current year, there's a reason why Moscow is russia and the rest of the country are more or less autonomos zones left to their own devices, super poor, with all the wealth filtering back to moscow. It's not feasible for even those regions to be uplifted into "russia proper", i couldn't imagine that an even further away, more hostile environment is a very appetizing load to take onto the national budget.