Austrian ex-minister settles in Russia, with ponies in tow
In 2018, Karin Kneissl, then foreign minister of neutral Austria, made headlines when she invited Putin to her wedding in Austria and danced with him. The 58-year-old left the government the following year. A highly controversial figure in her own country, Kneissl moved to France in September 2020. She claims she was pressured into leaving there and had temporarily settled in a small village in Lebanon. Last week, Kneissl's ponies were flown to Saint Petersburg on a military aircraft from the Russian air base at Hmeimim in Syria... Читать дальше...