The Inuit on Little Diomede are watched over by Russian soldiers. But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands ...

The world's largest ocean may lie between them, but at their closest point the US and Russia are not even three miles apart. Despite this, the closest point between the two countr ...

This small number of residents live in just a single community, called Diomede, which is on the west ... between what would later become Russia and Alaska didn’t always require the sea to ...