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Russia and the US might feel like two places that are worlds apart, but sitting in the middle of the Bering Strait are two tiny islands that prove otherwise. With just 3.8 kilometers (2.4 miles ...
Six Russian military aircraft, including Tu-95s, Tu-142 and A-50, were tracked operating in the Alaskan ADIZ and were ...
Russian fur hunters and traders in Siberia ... reached Prince of Wales Island. Bering's own ship, the St. Peter, sighted Mt. St. Elias, and Kayak Island the next day. But the ships by this time ...
Six Russian military aircraft were ... But the incursion took place in the Bering Sea about 290 miles northeast of Shemya, a small island near the western tip of the Aleutian Islands, according ...
A major quake in the Bering Sea on Tuesday has not caused damage to settlements of the Russian Kamchatka region ... of Nikolskoye settlement on Bering Island, according to specified data.
and Ratmanov Island, part of Russia’s Chukotka, located just 2.4 miles apart in the Bering Strait. The video notes that during icy winters, the Russian-American border in this area becomes ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Helena Pagano’s great-grandfather was the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea, closer to Russia than North America. He died starving as a prisoner of ...
Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev became the first recorded visitor to these islands in 1648, when he discovered the strait separating Eurasia and North America. Later named after Vitus Bering ...
A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying of the community.
The $65 billion tunnel would run in three sections, connecting two islands in the Bering Strait between Russia and the United States. A 3,700-mile transport corridor from Siberia into the United ...