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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 ...
Foreign Policy1d
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 ...
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 ...
The New York Times23d
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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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 ...
Alaska Dispatch News6h
Chukchi Sea polar bears are increasingly exposed to disease-causing pathogens
Study reveals dramatic increases since the late 1980s, signaling potential future stress for bears already coping with a ...
PBS2y
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 ...
Business Insider8mon
US troops in Alaska's tundra prepare against Russia and China
An curved arrow pointing right. Eight thousand troops perform military exercises like hauling artillery, deploying attack helicopters, and parachuting into Alaska's Arctic tundra. Here's a closer ...
BBC3mon
China and Russia stage first joint bomber patrol near Alaska
Russia and China have staged a joint patrol over the north Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea near the coast of Alaska. The two countries have carried out several joint patrols in the past ...
朝日新聞社1y
Alaska’s Qilak LNG targets Asia with $5 billion project to compete with Russia
Qilak LNG plans to invest $5 billion in a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Alaska’s North Slope to compete with Russia’s Yamal project for Asian customers towards the end of ...