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 ...
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 Times of Israel1mon
Former prisoner of Zion, anti-Soviet dissident Eduard Kuznetsov dies at 85
Eduard Kuznetsov, a former prisoner of Zion and journalist for a Russian-language newspapers and radio, died on Saturday night at the age of 85. He was one of the leading figures in the struggle ...