Austria's former foreign minister to leave Russian village for St Petersburg
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Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, famous for dancing with Russian President Vladimir Putin at her wedding, is to move to St Petersburg.
Source: Kneissl revealed this to Kremlin-aligned news agency TASS on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Kneissl said she will move to St Petersburg to work at the G.O.R.K.I. (the Geopolitical Observatory for Russia's Key Issues) centre, which she runs.
"I co-founded the G.O.R.K.I. centre, and I run it. As there is lots of work there and it requires plenty of attention, I cannot do it casually, so I have decided to move to St Petersburg to do this work," said the former head of Austrian diplomacy.
Background:
- Kneissl served as Austrian Foreign Minister from 2017 to 2019. This summer, she lived in Ryazan Oblast.
- Kneissl joined the board of directors of Russian oil giant Rosneft as an independent director in 2021. She resigned from the Rosneft board in May 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine.
- Kneissl's personal website says, "Karin Kneissl involuntarily left her home country as a result of persistent death threats and a de facto ban on working in Austria."
- Kneissl made headlines in 2018 when Putin attended her wedding. The two were photographed dancing.
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