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
Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute and former UK Prime Minister, 16th YES Annual Meeting, 2019
«At the heart of everything that gonna happen in the next ten years will be - how do you make sense of the technological revolution, how do you access its benefits, mitigate its downsides, and how do you show the next generation that there is a way to deal with this.»