Russian media attending Alaska summit forced to sleep on stadium cots

August 15, 2025

The Russian delegation was placed on the stadium grounds (Photo: RosZMI)

Russian state media reporters attending the U.S.-Russia summit between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage were housed in a stadium with cots separated only by curtains instead of proper beds on Aug. 15.

Specifically, temporary housing for Russian propagandists was set up on the grounds of the Alaska Airlines Center.

The facility had no separate rooms — the large hall was simply divided with curtains. Each “room” contained just two cots, which propagandist Andrey Kolesnikov said resembled medical stretchers.

The Alaska Airlines Center stadium-arena, where the Russian delegation was housed (Фото: RosZMI)

The Alaska Airlines Center stadium-arena, where the Russian delegation was housed / Photo: RosZMI

According to the Moscow Times, the space had previously served as a COVID-19 hospital and was now converted again into a temporary accommodation center.

Some Russians reacted negatively to this “hospitality” and the so-called improvised hotel.

“This is something from the Red Cross — and here everyone has a little pillow, a towel, these kinds of partitions,” propagandist Gleb Ivanov said.

RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan cynically claimed that journalists were served Kyiv-style cutlets during the flight.

Room for one person (Фото: RosZMI)

Room for one person / Photo: RosZMI

https://english.nv.ua/nation/russian-reporters-housed-in-stadium-for-trump-putin-summit-50537394.html

7 comments

  1. To make them feel really at home, I hope the US installed a communal toilet with no doors and toilet paper with putler’s face printed on it.

    • And knock out a bunch of tiles and leave the place uncleaned for a month and assure rusty water from the faucets and plenty of mold on all the surfaces.

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