US Tracks Arctic-Bound Russia, China Ships Near Alaska
A U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J long-range surveillance aircraft spotted two Russian border guard ships and two ... Island is ...
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ARCTIC MENACE: Chinese, Russian Operations off Coast of Alaska
Two Chinese vessels and two Russian patrol vessels were seen by the U.S. Coast Guard near the maritime boundary between the U ...
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Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
It was a border of words only. After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed clarification.
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Russia’s embassy in US will hold telephone conversation with Russians detained in Alaska
"The embassy is aware of the situation with the detained Russian citizens in the state of Alaska. Today we received a notification about this from the Anchorage branch of the US Customs and Border ...
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Russia wants to build a massive superhighway that would make it possible to drive from the UK to the US
a super motorway that would connect the eastern border of Russia with Alaska in the United States. The highway would make it possible to drive from the United Kingdom to the US, with help from ...
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Inside the Russian plot to create ‘controlled chaos’ and disrupt the US ahead of the presidential election
Russia has stepped up its campaign to sow “controlled chaos” in the US as the presidential election ... to an American F-16 jet in airspace near Alaska. That aggressive act is known as ...
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Where Are They Now? 15 Countries That Were Once Part of the Soviet Union
It’s been 33 years now since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 into 15 separate countries. And what a ride it’s been. The ...
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U.S. and British Newspapers Respond to the Sale of Alaska in 1867
1895 Map of Alaska. Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas. "Russia has sold us a sucked orange ... or to reclaim wilderness which border on the Arctic Ocean. We may make a treaty with Russia but we can not ...
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Russia’s Warming Arctic Is a Climate Threat. War Has Shut Scientists Out of It.
He can peer across the icy Arctic border between ... explicitly told us: Do not include Russia,” said Vladimir Romanovsky, a Russian geophysicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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The heavy-duty ship the US needs to protect its thawing border with Russia 'is just falling apart,' captain says
The months-long Arctic operation that Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star finished last month was a rare mission for the US's sole heavy ... overflights by Russian border-patrol aircraft." ...
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US Navy apologizes for the 1882 obliteration of a Tlingit village in Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — 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 ...
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Border Patrol: Drawing the line between Alaska and Canada
In 1894 a Canadian surveyor named William Ogilvie hiked to the top of Mount McGinnis to photograph the peaks protruding through the Juneau Icefield. His assignment was to help determine the ...