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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.
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.
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.
One state mouthpiece who once boasted how Russia could reduce the United States to a smouldering pile of radioactive ash, is now talking about a “great troika” of China, Russia and the US.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has spent millions in a campaign to influence foreign political events, according to newly declassified U.S. intelligence. Russia spent $300 million secretly ...
For example, in early 2024, ballet dancer Ksenia Karelina, a dual American-Russian citizen and resident of Los Angeles, was arrested while visiting family in Russia and charged with treason for sending $51.80 to Razom, a New York City-based nonprofit organization that sends humanitarian assistance to Ukraine. [361]
A viral social media post claims that Ukraine recently fired U.S.-made missiles at Russia, accompanied by a video purportedly showing the aftermath of such an attack. Verdict: Misleading While ...