U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the air patrol—the first time Chinese warplanes had approached Alaska—came ... the Tu-95MS. The blogger's map indicates Russia's cruise missile bombers ...

A 1775 map depicting the Russian Discoveries ... Chechens and Tatars. But it was in Alaska that Russia’s colonialist drives reached its apex. And it was Alaska that highlighted just how similar ...

Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island ... the burgeoning subgenre of Google Maps-themed TikTok videos, for example ...

Few realize that Russia established colonies ... their youth Bering's endeavors enabled him to map the Aleutian Islands and the coastline of Alaska—a territory rich in possibilities and ripe ...

A check for $7.2 million and a Treaty of Cession sealed a deal between Russia and the U.S. in 1867 for the territory of Alaska. Alaska is 55 miles away from mainland Russia and is over 2,200 miles ...

Russia is visible from the U.S., as evidenced in a photograph shared in February 2024 that allegedly shows Russian territory as seen from Alaska, just 2 miles away. Although Russia's Big Diomede ...

That was when czarist Russia, hoping to unload the giant frozen expanse of Alaska, hatched a scheme to manipulate Washington into buying a territory nobody really wanted. It worked. Not only that ...