1895 Map of Alaska. Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas. "Russia has sold us a sucked orange. Whatever may be the value of that territory and its outlying islands to us, it has ceased to be of any to Russia.

(U.S. Forest Service map) After the U.S. 1867 purchase of Alaska from Russia, the inherited treaty needed clarification. In the 1890s, Canada and the U.S. jointly decided to delineate the border ...

noting that Soolook told Insider that life on the island hasn't changed dramatically since Russia invaded Ukraine. "We keep the eyes and ears." The city of Diomede, Alaska, on Little Diomede ...