Russian Alaska

Thursday, March 17, 2022 Edit

Back in 2014 I uncovered a leaked Russian document which showed the intention of Russia to invade Alaska. Russkaya Amerika was the name for the Russian Empires colonial possessions in North America from 1799 to 1867.

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Alaska was sold to the US in 1867 for 72million equivalent to 1444m in 2021.

. Your country doesnt have that many rubles to buy it back OSFP Marcin_TS March 14 2022. 1 day agoThe first Russian colony in Alaska was created in 1784 and was called the Three Saints Bay. Аляска Alyaska officially known as the Alaskan Democratic Federative Republic Аляскинская Демократическая Федеративная Республика Alyaskinskaya Demokraticheskaya Federativnaya Respublika and commonly abbreviated as the ADFR АДФР.

According to Smithsonian the RussiaAlaska saga began in 1581 when Russia annexed a Siberian territory from one of Genghis Khans grandsons and then marched across the land hunting fur and converting the heathens to Russian Orthodox ChristianityBy the early 1700s they were looking beyond Siberia across the Bering Strait named for Vitus Bering the. As in the American West Russian Alaska attracted the full range of humanity. Its part of a series of escalating sanctions against Russia over its.

1 day agoA Russian lawmaker made an outlandish demand over the weekend that the United States return Alaska and a historic settlement in California in addition to. The Islands shorten the distance between Russia and Alaska. Fort Ross the former Russian settlement Solovyov appeared to demand returned to them is three hours.

Russians settle Alaska. 1 hour agoAccording to the Alaska Public Lands Information Centers a Russian expedition arrived in Alaska in 1741 thousands of years after scientists say the first people came after crossing the Bering. On Kodiak Island Grigory Shelikhov a Russian fur trader founds Three Saints Bay the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska.

1 day agoThat includes Alaska and even Fort Ross California a small area in Sonoma County that was at one point the Russian Empires southernmost outpost in. 1 day agoState and federal lawmakers from Alaska are applauding the Biden administrations decision to ban Russian seafood imports. Russia the largest country in the world is located in Eastern Europe and North Asia.

I wrote about this in 2014 and said this was a danger point. Seward proposed what he thought was a brilliant idea the purchase of the Alaska from Russia. Is a sovereign state located along the Northwest Coast region of North America.

The links are largely dead the but the account was verified. 11 hours agoAlaska politicians and historians were quick to scoff at a call from a Russian parliament member to return Alaska and a former outpost in California to Russian hands amid Russias war in Ukraine. If Russia were to go to war with the US over Ukraine Alaska would be invaded.

In 1867 United States Secretary of State William Seward was under pressure from the Senate the House of Representatives and the American people. Covering almost 66 million square miles Russia extends towards Alaska on the eastern side in the Kamchatka Krai region. A tweet also implied that Russia is a bully saying Alaska was.

Though Russia asked the nominal sum of 72 million for the vast swath of territory Sewards opponents still felt that it was not money. 1 day agoYep Russia is demanding Alaska be returned to Russia despite the fact that Russia sold the territory that would later become Americas. 21 hours agoRussia sold Alaska for 72M USD.

The European discovery of Alaska came. The Anchorage School District boasts the first ever Russian language immersion program in an American elementary school and UAA Anchorage and the State of Alaska maintain important partnerships with Russian universities and organizations especially in the Russian Far East. 1 day agoThe first Russian colony in Alaska called the Three Saints Bay was created in 1784.

In 1867 for 72 million. 1 day agoAlaska was a territory of the Russian empire in the late 18th and 19th centuries but was purchased by the US. Interestingly enough Big Diomede is owned by Russia while Little Diomede is owned by the US.

It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States but also included small outposts in California including Fort Ross and three forts in Hawaii including Russian Fort Elizabeth. However in the body of water between Alaska and Russia known as the Bering Strait there lies two small islands known as Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Adventurers and explorers merchants and plunderers enlightened and not-so-enlightened administrators scoundrels and saints.

Although the original impetus for colonizing. The Eurasian continent extends towards the Pacific Ocean. The Russian colonization of Alaska lasted less than a century but in that time produced a rich history of enduring importance.

The narrowest distance between mainland Russia and mainland Alaska is approximately 55 miles.

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