Conspicuously, there were no representatives from Russia in Yalta, but its shadow was felt.
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In the current Latin American situation, Chavez has an advantage comparable with Stalin's during Yalta.
He denied that the agreement made at Yalta in 1945 for the division of Europe had been broken by the Russians.
At the time of the Yalta conference, the Soviets had the advantage of having their troops in the heart of Europe.
He replied with details of his life in Yalta his gardening, visits to Maxim Gorky and the ageing Tolstoy, and, of course, his writing.
Like Likhodeyev, who is magically transported to the Crimean resort of Yalta, Mr Rybkin resurfaced abruptly on February 10th in Ukraine's capital, Kiev.
He said, if it was not for the Yalta European Strategy conference network, the EU would not even be discussing Ukraine at all.
FORBES: Message from Condoleezza Rice to Ukraine: "The World is Watching You"
Until all these parties sit down at Yalta and divide up the world most consumers and small businesses will be staying on the sidelines.
As accession talks begin with Ukraine, German officials talk excitedly about a future Treaty of Yalta, dividing Eastern Europe anew into Russian and European spheres of influence.
The Center believes that George Bush's over-investment in political, economic and security terms in Mikhail Gorbachev represents the worst strategic miscalculation at a presidential summit since Yalta.
When Bohlen received the letter, he was busy with the Yalta Conference, where the Big Three negotiated the future of Europe, and his reply to Kennan was brief.
If the Obama Administration insists on the principle that any settlement should return Mr. Zelaya to power we may be facing a case of a Latin American Yalta.
By 1898, the 38-year-old Chekhov had moved to Yalta on the Black Sea, in the vain hope that its balmy climate would aid his struggle against his disease.
Five European presidents - from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia - have said they will not attend a Ukrainian summit of Central and East European leaders next week in Yalta.
Meanwhile, five European presidents - from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy and Slovenia - have said they will not attend a Ukrainian summit of Central and East European leaders next week in Yalta.
In a new paper, entitled The Washington Summit: The Worst Strategic Miscalculation Since Yalta, the Center examines the specific misconceptions and adverse practical implications of President Bush's drive to support the current Soviet leader, come what may.
For the best accommodations and dining options, the safe bets are Yalta, Novyi Svit, and Sevastopol, all within an hour and a half drive from Simferopil, the capital of the Crimea and the only city on the peninsula with an airport.
In some ways, the idea of the Yalta conference serves the purpose of building democracy in Ukraine better than any hypothetical governmental initiative: people with diametrically opposed opinions can gather for discussion and express their points of view.
FORBES: Message from Condoleezza Rice to Ukraine: "The World is Watching You"
Yet, in the interest of seeking a face-saving outcome on Germany acceptable to Gorbachev, Mr. Bush is perilously close to reaffirming the sort of "spheres of influence" arrangement that has been in disrepute since the ink dried on the Yalta agreement.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov said that "as a number of European heads of state cannot take part in the 18th summit of Central European states, Ukraine deems it necessary not to hold the summit on 11-12 May in Yalta".
The Yalta conference that took place early in 1945 between U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, paved the way for the subjugation of Poland and later countries such as Hungary and Czechoslovakia into the Soviet sphere of influence.
The company's long-term contract effectively ended in July 2004, when Putin himself met in Yalta with Ukraine's then president, Leonid Kuchma, and a group of oil and gas executives, including Gazprom's Miller, and drafted terms for a new outfit to deliver gas to Ukraine called Rosukrenergo.
Even though many of the details of the superpower meeting just concluded in Washington have yet to be disclosed, one fact is already clear: This summit represents the worst strategic miscalculation on the part of a president of the United States since the Yalta conference of 1945.
At a conference in Ukraine's Black Sea resort of Yalta, International Monetary Fund Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the world economy remained stuck "between the ice of recession and the fire of inflation, " and added that while the world financial market crisis was largely over, its consequences would be felt for some time to come.
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