the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central Europe to Soviet control at the infamous Yalta Conference held at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.

and certainly the former dreams of using the Livadia palace, the summer residence of the last tsars, where the conference took place in 1945. The "new Yalta" will instead be held on neutral ground ...

Instead, they signal a return to principles of the Yalta System established in WWII’s last months. The Yalta talks were held exactly 80 years ago in Feb 1945. The idea of ‘might is right ...

It was at Yalta, located in what is now Russian-occupied Crimea, that the planet was divided into spheres of influence – condemning most of Eastern Europe to decades of de facto Russian ...

Having had a few days to ponder the results of Yalta, last week the world began to draw more considered conclusions. Some of the most interesting were comparisons of Yalta with Versailles as ...

On Thursday, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha expressed Ukrainian fears that negotiations between two oligarchic strongmen, Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, could replay the ...

Here, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb tells me the shifting geopolitical tectonic plates could either produce a new Yalta or Helsinki moment. Plus, the EU’s health commissioner tells our ...

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This year marks the Eightieth anniversary of the historic Yalta Conference, where the leaders of the wartime Grand Alliance: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin negotiated ...

And to give Europe the confidence to provide those, he will need to commit America to Europe’s security, rather than sign up to a Yalta-like carve-up. Rarely has the Munich conference seen such ...

Post-WWII, US & USSR divvied up Europe without consulting it. That’s the approach Trump’s US & Putin’s Russia are taking in their Saudi bilateral. China’s ok with that. India should be wary ...