Alaska: A JACKPOT full of oil and gold, here’s how US bought it from Russia
Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t ...
Crooks and Liars18d
Alaska Becomes The 49th State
Lincoln's purview. It was dubbed Seward's Folly. Seward negotiated the deal in an extended bargaining session with Russian minister to the United States Eduard de Stoeckl on March 30, 1867. The Senate ...
Leicester Mercury6d
Future murderer hired by man to threaten brother in family feud over £5k
Killer Victor-Eduard Raja, who is currently behind bars, was recruited by Saajid Ibrahim to threaten his brother over a £5,000 debt. The brother, who has a heart condition and thin blood which ...
The Daily Telegraph21d
Eduard Kuznetsov, Soviet dissident whose death sentence exposed the plight of Jews under communism
The international outcry meant he was only sentenced to 15 years in the gulag for having tried to hijack a charter flight to escape the USSR Eduard Kuznetsov, who has died aged 85, was the main ...
The Conversation12d
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, ...