Could the Arctic be the subject of a major deal between Moscow and Washington?

"It is in Alaska and the Arctic that the economic interests of our countries converge," declared Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin 's diplomatic advisor, last week, referring to the prospect of "mutually beneficial large-scale projects." The message is clear: economic cooperation in the Arctic is on the agenda of the meeting scheduled for this Friday in Alaska between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Offering a juicy, win-win deal, then exploiting it to extract political concessions on Ukraine: this is a tactic that seems to come straight from Donald Trump's cult bestseller, The Art of the Deal, and which the Russian president will not fail to adopt to seduce the American president. But what could be the points of economic convergence between Russia and the United States in the region?