Navy Times on MSN1mon
Army deploys to Alaska island amid rise in Russian military activity
Eight Russian military planes and four navy vessels, including two submarines, have come close to Alaska in the past week as ...
Fox News28d
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 ...
Foreign Policy2d
The New U.S. Arctic Strategy Is Wrong to Focus on China
By Jo Inge Bekkevold, a senior China fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies, and Paal Sigurd Hilde, a ...
Stars and Stripes12h
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 ...
AOL28d
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 day in history, Oct. 18, 1867. The transfer of 665,000 square miles ...
TASS1mon
Bold Russian jet maneuver near Alaska shows who ‘rules the roost’ — analyst
The maneuver of the Russian Su-35S fighter jet off the coast of Alaska, as it sought to drive ... jet turned away a US aircraft that got too close to a Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber.
The New York Times24d
Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
Climate science has been stymied as Russia continues ... this month with a colleague near Toolik Field Station, a research outpost run by the University of Alaska Fairbanks in the northern part ...