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 ...
The territory once belonged to Russia but was sold to the US in 1867. Vladimir Putin has previously said this sale was ...
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 ...
In a controversial statement aired on Russian state television, Vladimir Solovyov, a prominent TV host and close ally of ...
“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick summer ...
The Arctic recently made headlines after Donald Trump repeated his desire to buy Greenland. Trump cited national security ...
Sen. Ted Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stressed Greenland’s strategic location in the Arctic.
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