2023-09-14 14:47:26
Austria’s former foreign minister Karin Kneissl has her ponies flown to Russia, where she wants to settle. The country’s once close relations with the aggressor state continue to cause excitement in the country.
Austria’s former Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / Kremlin / EPA
Austria’s political and economic contacts with Russia were close before the invasion of Ukraine. This connection continues to catch up with the country, sometimes in serious ways, sometimes in bizarre ways. The second category includes the wanderings of Karin Kneissl, who was Foreign Minister under Chancellor Sebastian Kurz between December 2017 and June 2019. In the country it is seen as a dazzling example of how parts of the elite allowed themselves to be lathered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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