As war stalls, Putin concedes he never cut a deal with Trump in Alaska

The Kremlin had framed the Anchorage summit as a turning point for the war in Ukraine. Now, Putin admits there was no deal, perhaps to get U.S. to help to broker a new one.

8.7-magnitude earthquake in Russia’s Far East sets off tsunami warnings in Japan, Alaska and Hawaii

A magnitude-8.7 earthquake in Russia’s Far East early Wednesday prompted tsunami warnings in parts of Japan, Alaska and Hawaii. (AP video by Audrey McAvoy)
The Financial Express

Tsunami Warning Highlight: 5 ft tsunami waves hit US coast – dramatic scenes explode after Russia quake triggers panic

Tsunami Warnings in Russia, Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, California Highlight Updates: Evacuations are currently taking place in Japan, Hawaii, and parts of the US West Coast.
Kyiv Post

‘No Agreement in Alaska’: Rubio Rejects Kremlin’s Ukraine Deal Narrative

In brief: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said no agreement on Ukraine was reached during the August 2025 Alaska summit, rejecting Russian claims that Moscow accepted a US-backed peace framework at the talks. Rubio added that only a proposal was ...
The American Spectator

From Alaska to Ukraine: Russia’s Empire of Imagined Returns

Russia’s appetite for its past has always been ravenous. Nothing illustrates it better than Moscow’s fixation on Alaska, a fixation less about America’s frontier than about Ukraine’s survival. When Trump hosted Vladimir Putin in Anchorage last ...
Wall Street Journal

Why Did Russia Sell Alaska? The History of Russia’s Ties to the U.S. State

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits a joint U.S.-Soviet World War II memorial during a trip to Alaska in 2017.Bob Hallinen/Zuma Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a ...

America 250: How Alaska's indigenous residents were forced to harvest seals

When the United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, it took ownership of the Pribilof islands, home to the Russian-American Company's commercial fur-seal enterprise — and to the Unangax^ people who were forced to harvest the seals as "wards of the state.