Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits a joint U.S.-Soviet World War II memorial during a trip to Alaska in 2017. (Bob Hallinen/Zuma Press) ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The meeting between President Trump ...

Russia often says that Ukraine belongs to its historical world. But history tells a different story, writes Ziare in an article. The Russian Empire once gave up a huge piece of land that today is one ...

Long before becoming America’s 49th state, Alaska was a distant outpost of the Russian Empire. This video examines the economic pressures, strategic ambitions, and natural riches that led to its 1867 ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On October 18, 1867, the United States formally acquired Alaska from Russia in a landmark $7.2 million deal that would reshape the future of North America. The purchase was ...

Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When ...

The organizers have structured the route and refueling locations: Irkutsk - Kirensk - Yakutsk - Magadan - Anadyr - Providence Bay - Nome (the US) - Fairbanks - Anchorage - Kodiak - Sitka, and back ...

Oct. 18 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1776, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was established. Dubbed the "Mason-Dixon" line, it became the unofficial boundary between North and South.

Alaska summit raised Russian hopes of a reset in ties Kremlin says talks on Ukraine are now paused Top diplomat likens U.S.-Russia ties to a collapsing house Moscow warns U.S. not to give Ukraine ...

American aircraft intercepted a Russian surveillance flight Tuesday off the coast of Alaska for the fifth time in the past week, defense officials said Wednesday. An Ilyushin IL-20 surveillance ...

Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what looked like the start of a U.S.-Russia rapprochement, a top Russian diplomat has raised ...