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US Tracks Arctic-Bound Russia, China Ships Near Alaska
The remote island, which is closer to Russia (50 miles) than to Alaska (116 miles), is just south of the Arctic Circle. This "near Arctic" encounter came after Russia and China staged a joint ...
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Alaska treaty first widely criticized in US, but Russian nationalists said to regret massive American land grab today
The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...
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Russia and China conducting joint Arctic operations for first time, Coast Guard says
Vice Adm. Peter Gautier, deputy commandant for Coast Guard operations, told House lawmakers that Russia and China have for ...
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Alaska in the 1940s
Since 1867, when the United States purchased the colony of Alaska from Russia, fortune-seekers had migrated to the territory, mostly settling around its southern panhandle. Beginning with the 1896 ...
On this day in history, October 18, 1867, United States purchases Alaska from Russia for cool $7.2 million
The United States made the deal of the centuries — securing the vast Alaska territory from Russia for $7.2 million — on this ...
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Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
(U.S. Forest Service map) After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty ... The Americans said otherwise. A view of a boat passing near Taku Glacier with Devils Paw ...
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Meet Little Diomede Island in Alaska, the 'eyes and ears' of the United States just 2.4 miles from Russia
noting that Soolook told Insider that life on the island hasn't changed dramatically since Russia invaded Ukraine. "We keep the eyes and ears." The city of Diomede, Alaska, on Little Diomede ...
It Seems North Korea Is Shipping Its Biggest Guns To Russia, So Russia Can Fire Them At Ukraine
Russia needs foreign troops if it expects to keep up its war effort in Ukraine through next year. It needs foreign equipment, ...
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Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
Russia has imposed hurdles of its own on cooperation with the West. Syndonia Bret-Harte, the science director of Toolik Field Station and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor. “It is like ...
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93% of Ukrainians have a negative view of Russia, but 3% still view it positively – infographics
The Ukrainians' views toward Russia have sharply deteriorated since the start of its full-scale invasion in 2022 – by October, 93% of respondents held a negative view of Russia, with only 3% viewing ...