Leonid Slutsky, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party and chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, announced a meeting in a friendly format with Austrian former Foreign Minister Katrin Kneissl. DEA News.
“Of course … (it’s) a meeting of friends,” he said, answering a question about meeting with Kneissl.
At the same time, the politician pointed out that it is not worth mentioning that the former foreign minister did not have Russian citizenship, so he joined the Liberal Democratic Party.
Before that, Kneisl statedThat he enjoys living in the Russian countryside and that the locals accept him well.
Previously reportedKneisl settled in the village of Petrushovo in the Kasimovsky district of the Ryazan region.
August 18, 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin came to the wedding Kneisl, with whom she danced, then the Austrian minister bowed to the Russian leader. Western media took it as a sign of surrender.
Formerly Kneisl statedthat he was considered a Russian oligarch at home.