This is the second year in a row this has happened. As in the previous case, US authorities ignored Russian diplomatic notes asking them to visit the Fort Richardson cemetery, located near Anchorage.
It is located on the territory of a military base and to visit it it is necessary to have special permission from the American authorities. It contains the remains of nine Soviet pilots, two military personnel and two civilians who died between 1942 and 1945 while transporting aircraft from the United States to the USSR as part of the Lend-Lease program.
At the same time, within the framework of the consular session in the states of Alaska and Washington, Russian diplomats and their compatriots laid flowers at the monument to war veterans in the center of Anchorage, as well as at the grave of the Red Army . Private Mikhail Anisimov at Evergreen Vashelli Cemetery in Seattle, the report notes.
