An Alaskan former politician and Native rights activist explains how Alaska came to be American – and what that meant for the state’s Native population.
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An 82-metre column in the capital of imperial Russia commemorates Peter the Great’s victory in the Great Northern war and the establishment of the Russian empire.
The forthcoming March election in Russia is likely to mean another victory for Vladimir Putin, who remains popular, for now.
Francis I’s message seemed to unwittingly echo some of Vladimir Putin’s historical justifications for invading Ukraine.
Putin’s imperial ambitions have led him to refer to himself as a latter-day Peter the Great.
For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
In 1867, the US bought Alaska from Tsar Alexander II for a tidy sum of $7.2 million. Trump probably wouldn’t be able to get that kind of bargain for Greenland.
The tale of how and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the U.S. 150 years ago is actually two tales and two intertwining histories.
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