The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, securing access to the Pacific northern rim and ending Russian presence in North America.

Putin wants to reclaim Alaska as part of Russia — or at least that’s the implication. The idea of “returning” the northern lands resurfaced in Russia in Jan. 2024, when Putin issued Decree No. 21. The ...

In response to these provocations, Sen. Sullivan led a years-long campaign to secure broad U.S. sanctions on Russian-harvested seafood. These sanctions were finally fully implemented last year, and ...

Putin is offering the U.S. a stake in the minerals, rare earths and vast natural gas deposits in Russia’s Arctic.

The Trump administration says sanctions imposed on Moscow mean the U.S. does little trade with Russia, but questions persist ...

Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including ...

Since 1867, when the United States purchased the colony of Alaska from Russia, fortune-seekers had migrated to the territory, mostly settling around its southern panhandle. Beginning with the 1896 ...

Many ridiculed Secretary of State William Seward for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867. But he turned out to be quite the shrewd businessman. Who Was the Real Cleopatra? Fact or Fiction?

Russia plans to build the world's longest undersea tunnel, a 64-mile transport & pipeline link that would run from Siberia to Alaska and supply the United States with oil, natural gas and ...

Russian documents from the time indicate that Bering's explorations of Alaska were not made for the purely scientific purposes of survey and mapping. Russia wanted a permanent presence in North ...

China has never condemned Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and their military-diplomatic partnership — from joint bomber flights near the U.S. state of Alaska to votes in the U.N ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...