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The first official acknowledgement of the sovereignty of the United States of America was on November 16, 1776, when the first foreign salute [7] was given to the American Flag. The gun salute was given to the vessel USS Andrew Doria in Fort Orange on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius.
Bailey, Thomas A. America Faces Russia: Russian-American Relations from Early Times to Our Day (1950). online; Bashkina, Nina N; and David F. Trask, eds. The United States and Russia : the beginning of relations, 1765-1815 (1980), 1260pp online primary sources; Bolkhovitinov, Nikolai N. The Beginnings of Russian-American Relations, 1775-1815 ...
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
During a New York real estate conference in 2008, President Donald Trump's eldest son admitted that a lot of the family's assets come from Russia.
President Donald Trump welcomes Marc Fogel back to the United States, after being released from Russian custody, at the White House on February 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.
One home in Delmar, New York, was linked to Scott Ritter, a former United Nations weapons inspector and critic of U.S. foreign policy, while another in Virginia was tied to Dimitri K. Simes, an ...
Russia [208] Consulate: 1780; Recognized: 1780; Relations established: 1809; Legation/embassy established: 1809; First ambassador: John Quincy Adams; Relations ended: — Notes: U.S.–Russia diplomatic relations were interrupted in 1917 following the November Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Diplomatic relations were never formally severed, but ...
When Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva was blocked from leaving Russia last June, her family never expected that she would still be in Russian detention than a year later.