As the Ukraine crisis deepens and European countries increasingly worry about the possibility of an all-out confrontation with Russia, the Kremlin has begun to make public the basic conditions of an overall political solution that could stabilize and deescalate the standoff. This week (February 25), Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin, 60, a member of president Vladimir Putin’s inner circle of St. Petersburg acquaintances from the KGB, highly praised the February 1945 Yalta conference of the Big Three—the leaders of the United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, respectively. The …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation