April 26, 2007 (LPAC)--Participants in the Megaprojects of Russia's East conference in Moscow issued an appeal to the member governments of the G-8 to put the Bering Straits project on their agenda for the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, in June. Germany's Spiegel Online news reported this today and ran the first post-Moscow conference article in the German language, largely based on the AP news wire of April 24. But Spiegel added mention of an article on the project, penned by Vladimir Brezhnev, CEO of the Russian construction firm Transstroi, in 2005 in the magazine, Tunneling and Underground Space Technology. In that article, Brezhnev and his co-authors wrote: "Among tunnel experts, there is no doubt that the implementation of the described tunnels is technically feasible."

Brezhnev also was among participants of the Megaprojects conference, according to Spiegel, where he beat the drum for the project. "Maybe not all of us will take part in that project, but I as an engineer would wish I were able to be there."

On return from Moscow, where he delivered both his own presentation and Lyndon LaRouche's to the conference, Jonathan Tennenbaum reported that the conference was a central event in a very broad-ranging debate in Russia, around the absolute need for great projects. There was extensive debate and discussion at the Moscow event on the problem of financing the Bering Strait tunnel and development corridor. As we have reported, the deputy chairman of Russia's Federal Agency for Special Economic Zones, during his presentation, concurred with Tennenbaum's remarks regarding the need to immediately invest existing liquidity, such as the Russian government's stabilization fund derived from oil and gas revenues, into such big high-technology projects of new infrastructure.