MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. Russia and the US have different views on the results of the Anchorage summit; the political scandal around UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his appointees' illicit ties to US financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein could lead to the downfall of the British government; and Moscow insists on participation in the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity. These stories topped Tuesday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Despite the mutual understanding reached in Anchorage, Alaska, in August 2025 by US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the dialogue between the two sides has since taken a different course in practice, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with BRICS TV on February 9. Responding later to a question from Vedomosti about what the much-mentioned "spirit of Anchorage" is and what it consists of, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "There are a number of understandings that were reached in Anchorage. This set of understandings constitutes the ‘spirit of Anchorage’."
According to a Vedomosti source close to the negotiation process, Russia was ready to make some territorial "compromises" in Alaska (though not on the status of Donbass), as well as on the size of Ukraine's armed forces. A prerequisite was the establishment of broader cooperation with the US, including economic cooperation.
