Valentina Koonooka and her four daughters waited four days in an airport terminal in Nome, Alaska to take a less-than-two-hour flight across the Bering Sea to visit family in Russia. For generations, residents in the area routinely crossed from island to island, moving freely across the US-Russia border. However, in 1948 the border officially closed.
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