Alaska, an American Arctic State with a Russian Past

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Alaska, which will host a summit on Friday between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, was under Russian control before being sold to the United States in the 19th century. Despite the passage of time Russian influence remains present in this American Arctic state. – Russian excolonia When the Danish explorer Vitus Bering first sailed through the strait separating Asia from America in 1728, he did so on an expedition for Tsarist Russia. …

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The Kremlin saw well the election of Alaska as the seat of the summit with Trump, as Putin, against whom an international arrest warrant for war crimes weighs, will only have to cross the Bering Strait

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The election of Alaska as the seat of the Russian-American summit is a painful reminder of how the Tsars sold the peninsula to the United States in 1867 behind the backs of the Russian people, a bad business that could have changed the history of the 20th century."Russia saw the United States as a potential ally" and a counterweight to England and France, he told Efe Alexandr Petrov, a Russian historian and expert in American history.To this it …