The meeting between President Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is taking place in a region rich with significance for Moscow. Once Russian territory, Alaska was sold by Alexander II in 1867 for $7.

In the early hours of Saturday morning following a summit in Alaska between the leaders of Russia and the United States, senior politicians in Moscow were quick to trumpet the meeting as a win for Russia and its narrative of the war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska Friday for a major summit that many were hopeful would lead to negotiations that end Russia's war in Ukraine.

Seward’s Folly” — that’s what many Americans called the now gold-rich state on the distant northern edge of the continent for years. In 1868, they purchased it from the Russians for just $7.2 million in gold — a bit over 11 million rubles at the time.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

The Modi government will hope that Washington and Moscow will arrive at a final agreement on how to deal with Ukraine and Trump will discard the 25 per cent additional tariff. At the minimum, Delhi would want Trump to postpone the deadline of August 27 for implementing the additional tariffs against India.

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.

ANCHORAGE—Dozens of Russian Orthodox faithful joined in prayer ahead of Friday’s summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, hoping for peace between Russia and Ukraine. “Let our leaders yearn for peace when they meet,