Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his country’s last remaining foothold in North America, to the United States for US$7.2 million.
Russian state TV host Tigran Keosayan is in a coma after experiencing "clinical death," according to his wife, Margarita Simonyan.
On This Day in 1959, Alaska—One of America’s Riskiest Investments—Became the 49th State in the Union
Nonetheless, Eisenhower signed legislation making Alaska a state on July 7, 1958. On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially ...
In a controversial statement aired on Russian state television, Vladimir Solovyov, a prominent TV host and close ally of ...
Vladimir Solovyov called for the U.S. state's return to Russia after Russian military aircrafts recently entered ...
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Alaska has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over restrictions on oil and gas leases in the Arctic National ...
Vladimir Solovyov, a Russian TV host and known associate of Putin, has sparked controversy by suggesting that Alaska should be returned to Russia. During a recent broadcast on state-run media ...
Their deployment coincided with eight Russian aircraft and four navy vessels, including two submarines, traveling close to Alaska while Russia and China conducted joint military drills.
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Another 'drill, baby, drill' Trump administration promises to turn up the heat in fast-warming, methane-emitting Alaska.
Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stressed Greenland’s strategic location in the Arctic.
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