America’s purchase of Alaska in 1867 was a bizarre land deal between two countries. It was either hated or ridiculed across most of the world. But now, Russian nationalists want their long-lost icebox ...
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The real reason Russia sold Alaska to the US
A lot of people hear “Russia sold Alaska” and immediately assume it was because Russia didn’t realize what it had. This version of the story always puts a smirk on the face of Americans considering ...
Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits a joint U.S.-Soviet World War II memorial during a trip to Alaska in 2017.Bob Hallinen/Zuma Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The meeting between President Trump ...
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was ambivalent when asked about a possible tunnel from Russia to Alaska, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn’t like the proposal. “That’s an ...
U.S. fighter jets scrambled to identify and intercept four Russian warplanes flying near Alaska, the North American Aerospace Defense Command said Thursday.It's the third time in about a month and the ...
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