Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as we sleep good at night," a resident told Insider. "We keep the eyes ...

Russia is visible from the U.S., as evidenced in a photograph shared in February 2024 that allegedly shows Russian territory as seen from Alaska, just 2 miles away. Although Russia's Big Diomede ...

The Alaska Air National Guard this week traveled nearly 660 miles to rescue a pregnant woman on a small island 2 miles from Russia, reflecting the challenges patients face in the nation’s largest ...

The 114 people who live on the Alaskan island of Little Diomede in the Bering Sea have been cut off from passenger air service — and basic health care on the mainland — for more than three months. The ...

Ben Seymour moved to Alaska with a burning passion for Native American and Eskimo culture. He found it on the island of Little Diomede. We were a half-hour’s plane ride off the Alaskan coast when our ...

Located just three miles apart from each other, the two remote islands of Big Diomede and Little Diomede are divided by two time zones. The two islands, Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (USA), ...

Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe, as long as ...

The American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, left, and on the right, the Russian island of Big Diomede, are seen from the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica in the Bering Strait, on July 14, 2017. (AP ...