US Reports About Wrangel Island Issue Provocative, Such Initiatives Are Extremist, Envoy Says

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The ideas circulating in the US press about the "return" of Wrangel Island to the United States are extremist, and it is undeniable that the island is part of Russian territory, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials and Russian Ambassador-at-Large Nikolay Korchunov told Sputnik.