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Yalta is all about conferences and agreements. At the Livadia Palace in 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met to re-draw the map of Europe at the end of World War II.

At the same beautiful and historical place which was the summer home of the last of the Russian Tsars, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for Social Policy Sergiy Tigipko told a press conference on 4 October in the context of the Crimea Black Sea Economic Forum 2012 that Kiev is always ready and open for gas-price negotiations with Russia.

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