Putin, Trump and Alaska
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Russia Sold Alaska to the U.S
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Al Jazeera on MSNWhy did Russia sell Alaska to the United States?
United States President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine. On Wednesday, following a virtual meeting with European leaders including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15 for one of the most consequential in-person summits in years. The meeting, which lasted for nearly three hours, ended without a concrete deal.
During his Alaska summit with President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to lay flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots at Fort Richardson — a WWII burial site for airmen who died while training in Alaska to ferry U.
Alaska, the US state that will host the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on Friday, is a source of imperial nostalgia and often less-than-serious territorial claims in Russia.In 2014, Vladimir Putin,
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Ukrainska Pravda on MSNUS temporarily lifts sanctions on Russian transactions needed to prepare Alaska summit
The US Department of the Treasury has temporarily lifted sanctions to allow Russia to spend money in the United States related to preparations for the Alaska summit between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump,
Donald Trump dropped his demand for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine after meeting with Vladimir Putin. Here are five takeaways from the Alaska summit and its aftermath.