The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The ...

Kliuyev recalled that Russia and the U.S. had an area under joint jurisdiction in the Bering Strait. "Navigation there wasn’t formalized in any way," he said. "We held protracted talks with the ...