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Summary List Placement Tensions between the US and Russia and increasing activity in the Arctic have drawn more attention to the countries' otherwise quiet boundary in the high north. The Bering Strait, between Alaska and Russia's Far East, has long been an area of low tension and cooperation on matters like waterway management and fisheries enforcement. But expectations of increased commercial and military activity...

US aircraft have scrambled several times this year to intercept Russian planes flying around Alaska. Those aircraft, sometimes flying with Canadian fighters, get up close with Russian planes — sometimes for hours at a time. "We can see each other. They know that we're there," F-22 pilot 1st Lt. Brett Meyer told Insider, "and we know obviously that they are there." Visit Business Insider's...