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  2. Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    Grinëv, Andrei V. "Natives and Creoles of Alaska in the maritime service in Russian America." The Historian 82.3 (2020): 328–345. online [dead link ‍] The Tlingit Indians in Russian America, 1741–1867, Andreĭ Valʹterovich Grinev (GoogleBooks) Luehrmann, Sonja. Alutiiq villages under Russian and US rule (University of Alaska Press, 2008.)

  4. Alaska boundary dispute - Wikipedia

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    The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of Canada. The Canadian government requested a survey of the boundary, but the United States rejected it as too costly; the border area was very remote and sparsely settled ...

  5. History of Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Bits and Pieces of Alaskan History: Published over the years in From Ketchikan to Barrow, a department in the Alaska Sportsman and Alaska magazine – v.1. 1935-1959 / v.2. 1960-1974. Anchorage: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0882401560. McBeath, Jerry et al. The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State (2008)

  6. Russian exploration of the Pacific Northwest - Wikipedia

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    Being the first European nation to chart much of what comprises the modern American state of Alaska, many locations retain Russian place names. The discovery of sizable fur bearing populations by Bering drew the attention of promyshleniki previously engaged in the Siberian fur trade.

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    After President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's central bank and finance ministry, blocking around $300 ...

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  9. Armenia to leave Russia-led security bloc, says PM

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    Armenia will leave a Russia-led security bloc, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed on Wednesday for the first time, accusing members of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation of having ...