The Yalta conference, named after its venue in then-Soviet Crimea, saw the US, USSR and UK redraw the map of Europe, dividing Germany and granting Moscow influence over what became the Warsaw Pact ...

As American and Russian negotiators meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, the fate of more than Ukraine ...

Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central ...

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 ...

The status of the Crimean Peninsula has entered international public consciousness over the past decade. Since the events of 2014, when it was annexed from Ukraine by the Russian Federation, the state ...

Visitors stand in front of a fragment of an artwork depicting US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at an exhibition at an art gallery in Livadia park in Yalta, Crimea, Feb 8, ...

One drone was downed over Crimea, which was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Ukrainian forces have struck and knocked out a North Korean self-propelled howitzer on the eastern front on the ...

But if Trump does walk the talk — invoking World War II with Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine — this restructuring can potentially be as significant as the Yalta summit ...

Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the seventh week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo galleries, see our archive.