Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $161,982,857 in 2024), all the holdings of the Russian–American Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.
The proposal not to expand NATO eastward, which was one of the ways Western countries took the initiative on the issue of German reunification and reducing the possibility of the Soviet Union's influence on this process, [12] was based on a speech by German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher in Tutzing, on January 31, 1990, [13] in which he included a call for NATO to clearly state ...
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
In this geopolitical tug-of-war, America must choose whether to act boldly to secure a strategic partnership or risk losing influence to rivals like Russia and China.
In her suddenly relevant history of NATO’s expansion, “Not One Inch,” she recounts how Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both tried to make a place for Russia in European security ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday that relations with Washington were so confrontational that Russian citizens should not visit the United States, Canada and some EU countries in coming ...
On 6 February 2025, a poll conducted by USA Today between 7 January 2025 and 10 January 2025 was released which showed that only 11% of Americans said that Trump should purchase or annex Greenland. 29% of Americans said that they thought that acquiring Greenland was a good but unrealistic idea, and 53% of Americans said that they don't support ...
A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Sept. 30 decree declaring the four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine to be part of Russia, few Latin American countries had condemned Russia ...