Karin Kneissl is thinking of moving to Russia.
This was announced at the World Economic Forum in St. Petersburg by the politician, who was the foreign minister of Austria between December 2017 and June 2019, as an independent, delegated by the Freedom Party to the first Kurz government, and after the FPÖ left the government, she even remained in the interim Löger government at the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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He first moved from Austria to France, then to Lebanon, outside the European Union, and is considered a close ally of Putin.
The Russian head of state was also the guest of honor at the wedding of the Austrian foreign minister, where he presented the bride with jewelry worth fifty thousand euros. At the same time, Kneissl was a commentator for Russia Today and a board member of Rosneft, which he was forced to resign due to his EU citizenship.
Karin Kneissl and the rector of St. Petersburg State University, Nikolai Kropachev, announced the founding of the GORKI (abbreviated acronym for Geopolitical Observatory for Russia's Key Issues) think tank named after the world-famous Soviet writer Gorky.
The institute, as its name suggests, will mainly deal with geopolitical issues.
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