“I FEEL the weight of history,” said Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, at the Yalta European Strategy forum (set up by Viktor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch). The conference took place in the Livadia palace, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin decided the fate of Europe in February 1945.
YALTA - President Viktor Yanukovych flies to Moscow on Sept. 24 for pivotal talks with his Moscow counterpart in the hopes of securing cheaper natural gas prices for an ailing domestic economy that is heavily fueled by Russian imports.
Le président Viktor Ianoukovitch vient de perdre simultanément la bataille du gaz avec Moscou et le soutien de l’Union européenne à cause notamment de l’incarcération de l’ex-première ministre Ioulia Timochenko. Le pays s’isole de plus en plus
YALTA, UKRAINE — Get ready for the global brain. That was the grand finale of a presentation on the next generation of the Internet I heard last week from Yuri Milner. G-8 leaders had a preview of Mr. Milner’s predictions a few months earlier, when he was among the technology savants invited to brief the world’s most powerful politicians in Deauville, France.
Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC World New, 14th YES Annual Meeting, 2017
«Russians are going to be fighting with long-term economic misery. And they will have to decide whether they are prepared to put up with it for the nationalist enterprise of staying in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.»