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 ...

At this point, it’s best to ignore any report that compares current events to past ones. The latest trend? The belief that we are witnessing a new Yalta. The Yalta Conference of February 1945 was when ...

The US and the USSR, Russia's predecessor, divided Europe between themselves without their say. The 1945 Yalta Conference and the ongoing US-Russia negotiations on the Russia-Ukraine conflict share ...

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 ...

ALTHOUGH recently the spotlight fell on US President Donald Trump’s dramatic and somewhat contradictory call for a negotiated end to what he terms “the Russia-Ukraine War”, the West has long ...

As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded. By Peter Baker Peter Baker ...

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 ...

And that geopolitical debate is best framed these days in the shorthand of two European city names. Earlier this month, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, commemorated the 80th anniversary of ...

The Prince and Princess of Wales are reportedly enjoying some quality time with their children during a family holiday over the February half-term break. Prince William, Kate and their three ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 80th anniversary of the Conference between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill and the new goals of today's emperors to divide the world. Meanwhile, ongoing commemorations focus not on ending the ...