It was sold in 1867, but some Russians want Alaska back from the U.S.

Way back in 1991, as the once-mighty Soviet Union disintegrated and Westerners cheered, Vladimir Putin’s favorite rock ‘n’ ...
Yahoo

Opinion - Trump’s hidden goal in Alaska was to break the China-Russia axis

The Alaska summit between President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, was more than a high-stakes encounter over the Ukraine war. It signaled America’s recognition that its own ...
The American Spectator

From Alaska to Ukraine: Russia’s Empire of Imagined Returns

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 ...

With flattery and warnings, Russia tries to revive 'spirit of Alaska' with US

Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what looked like the ...
Wall Street Journal

Why Did Russia Sell Alaska? The History of Russia’s Ties to the U.S. State

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 ...

A tunnel from Russia to Alaska? Trump calls Kremlin proposal 'interesting'

Trump called a proposed tunnel from Russia to Alaska 'interesting' and said he would 'have to think about that.' ...