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Saul, Norman E. Distant Friends: The United States and Russia, 1763-1867 (1991) Saul, Norman E. Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914 (1996) Saul, Norman E. The A to Z of United States-Russian/Soviet Relations (2010) Saul, Norman E. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Foreign Policy (2014).
Russian colonial possessions in the Americas were collectively known as Russian America (Russian: Русская Америка, romanized: Russkaya Amerika; 1799 to 1867). It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California.
As other European states expanded westward across the Atlantic Ocean, the Russian Empire went eastward and conquered the vast wilderness of Siberia.Although it initially went east with the hope of increasing its fur trade, the Russian imperial court in St. Petersburg hoped that its eastern expansion would also prove its cultural, political, and scientific belonging to Europe. [1]
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Stephen Frand Cohen (November 25, 1938 – September 18, 2020) was an American scholar of Russian studies.His academic work concentrated on modern Russian history since the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's relationship with the United States.
In August 2008, United States-Russia bilateral relations became further strained, when Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war over the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. President Bush said to Russia, "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century." [64]
The U.S. Navy deployed warships and aircraft to track a Russian naval flotilla after the Russian vessels sailed just 26 nautical miles off of South Florida’s coast on Tuesday.
More than 150 fake local news websites pushing Russian propaganda to U.S. audiences are connected to John Mark Dougan, an American former law enforcement officer living in Moscow, according to a ...