With Ukraine’s hopes for integration with the European Union going nowhere amid President Viktor Yanukovych’s authoritarian leanings, one event devoted to the cause keeps getting better. Viktor Pinchuk’s 9th Yalta European Strategy, which took place on Sept. 14-15 in Crimea, is truly becoming a plus for a nation still lacking in international identity, stature and respect. Billionaire Pinchuk has managed to turn this seaside gathering into something unique and beneficial.
“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
Member of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, YES Annual Meeting 2022 “Ukraine: Defending all Our Freedom”
«Regime change in Russia may become a prerequisite for a peace treaty on Ukraine’s terms. Putin will never agree to the conditions that we demand. Even if he did, there is no faith in Putin. No matter what he says, no matter what he signs, I don't think that Ukrainians will believe it, for any reason.»