The core of Russia was the principality of Muscovy—what is today the city of Moscow. From the 13th-19th centuries, it ...

An interesting geographical fact is that Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country. That country is Russia.

(U.S. Forest Service map) After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed clarification. In the 1890s, Canada and the U.S. jointly decided to delineate the border ...

A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an ...

Many Alaska tours are worth the splurge, but you don’t have to spend money hand over fist in every cruise port. Whether you want to keep your vacation spending in check or simply wish for a break from ...

Republican Donald Trump has won Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, capturing three of the seven heavily contested ...

Republican Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a ...

China launched a new three-person crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday as the country seeks to expand its ...

The T-shirt displays a map of the Grand Duchy of Moscow as it was in 1462 ... A particularly revealing example is Alaska. Russia sold the territory because it lacked the resources to maintain control, ...