Sentiment toward Russia in Alaska has cooled since Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022. The Anchorage Assembly voted unanimously to suspend its three-decade-long sister city relationship with Magadan, Russia, and the Juneau Assembly sent its sister city of Vladivostok a letter expressing concern.

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued General License No. 125, temporarily lifting certain Russia sanctions to permit financial transactions for the Putin-Trump summit in Alaska. The waiver,