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Closer to Russia than to mainland Alaska, the remote island is 280 miles from the nearest Russia-owned island in the area. It is near the western end of Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
The largest state in the union, Alaska boasts a wealth of natural resources, rich in oil, fish, minerals, and beautiful scenery. When The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, though ...
Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first ...
It was in the middle of the 19th century that the U.S. saw its first big foreign lobbying scandal — and arguably its most impactful one before 2016. That was when czarist Russia, hoping to unload ...
Imperialist rivalries have extended to one of the most environmentally fragile regions of the globe, explains In September ...
The Storis, named using a Scandinavian word that means “great ice,” will be the first new icebreaker to join the polar fleet ...
White House correspondent Jon Decker asks President Donald Trump about the proposed ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and ...
Last month, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized a new saint: Olga Michael, who lived in the small ton of Kwethluk, Alaska, until her death in 1979. St. Olga is the first Yup’ik to be canonized in ...
"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...
New images assessed by Business Insider show new roadworks, buildings, and modifications, with some sites undergoing rapid ...