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What countries border Russia? These 14 share land with the world's biggest country.
Finland shares a border of nearly 900 miles with Russia ... There are 55 miles between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska. But when it comes to islands, there are only 2.5 miles between ...
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Russia wants to build a massive superhighway that would make it possible to drive from the UK to the US
a super motorway that would connect the eastern border of Russia with Alaska in the United States. The highway would make it possible to drive from the United Kingdom to the US, with help from ...
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Two Russians sail to Alaska seeking asylum in US
in the event that more Russians flee to Bering Strait communities in Alaska". "This incident makes two things clear: First, the Russian people don't want to fight Putin's war of aggression against ...
Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...