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How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
An interesting geographical fact is that Finland and North Korea are separated by only one country. That country is Russia.
Schoolchildren check satellite images for island in Russia — then find it’s missing
One island of an archipelago far north of Russia has disappeared, satellite images show. Alexandra Barymova Lomonosov Moscow ...
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Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
The stalled collaboration is setting back efforts to monitor the shrinking of the Arctic, which is warming four times as fast as the global average ... across both Russia and Alaska.
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On this day in history, October 18, 1867, United States purchases Alaska from Russia for cool $7.2 million
"If Russia was in possession of Alaska today, the geopolitical situation in the world would have been different," Sergey Aksyonov, the prime minister of Crimea, reportedly said in a local TV ...
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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 boundary issue erupted onto the world stage by the discovery of gold in Canada’s ...
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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 ... land between future rivals for global hegemony had a profound impact ...
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Putin Flexes Nuclear Capabilities at Delicate Moment for Ukraine
Russia’s defense ministry said it launched ballistic missiles from a military base on the Kamchatka Peninsula near Alaska and from Naval ships in the Arctic Ocean. Long-range warplanes launched ...
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Alaska treaty first widely criticized in US, but Russian nationalists said to regret massive American land grab today
"If Russia was in possession of Alaska today, the geopolitical situation in the world would have been different," Sergey Aksyonov, the prime minister of Crimea, reportedly said in a local TV ...
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US Navy apologizes for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in ...
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The last in-person vote in the US will be cast on the desolate tundra of Alaska's Aleutian Islands
is closer to Russia than mainland Alaska. The island best known as a former World War II military base and later naval station is 1,200 miles (1,931 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage and further ...