The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

In an echo of the Yalta Conference in 1945, the American and Russian leaders will talk on Tuesday about who gets what in the ...

“Have [you] got a map yet?” he demanded of his ... “Saudi Arabia was a mini-Yalta,” he said. In February 1945 Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met in Crimea to carve postwar ...

Russia's illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and ...

and Crimea — as part of Ukraine — continued to host it. Sevastopol also was a preferred holiday destination for Nicholas II, the last Russian czar. The southern town of Yalta was a prime ...

Crimea's temperate climate made it a popular tourist destination for Ukrainians and Russians before the Russia-Ukraine war, especially Yalta, where the Soviet, U.S. and British victors of World ...