Karin Kneissl said that for her the Ryazan village is better than the Maldives
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Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, who rented a house in the Ryazan village of Petrushovo, said that she likes being there more than in the Maldives and Seychelles, transmits TASS.
“I like life here. I understand this world, I understood it when I was a girl. Grandmothers, apples, summer, swim in the river. It’s a good life. I don’t need the Maldives or the Seychelles. It’s better,” Kneissl said in Russian.
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria came to Petrushovo after the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. She clarified that she does not live in the village permanently. According to Kneisl, she rented a small village house in Petrushovo.
In early August, the ex-head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry appeared at the “Top of Summer” holiday, which is held annually in the Ryazan village, and gave interview with the online newspaper Vidsboku. Kneissl said that she paid the rent for a house in Petrushovo for another month. She clarified that she had received an invitation to teach law, oil markets, and gas markets at GORKI St. Petersburg University. Kneissl is also currently writing a book on “the current situation in Europe.”
In 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended Kneisl’s wedding to Wolfgang Meilinger. Answering a question about maintaining contact with the Russian leader, the former Austrian Foreign Minister replied that she had last seen him in 2019.
Kneisl headed the Austrian Foreign Ministry from 2017 to 2019. In 2021, she joined the board of directors of Rosneft as an independent director. However, after the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, the deputies of the European Parliament demanded that the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Kneisl leave the board of directors of Rosneft. Otherwise against them threatened impose personal sanctions. May 23, 2022 following Schröder Kneisl gone resign.
In July 2022 Kneisl left Austria because of death threats against it. The politician left for Lebanon because she knows Arabic, and then moved to Russia.
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