Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a very smart and good-natured gentleman in an interview with the BBC.
“He’s a very smart gentleman, just a gentleman; I’ve met very few people like him. When asked by a journalist what impression the Russian leader made on him, Kneissl said: “He meets the standard of the well-bred gentleman described by Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice.”
In the interview, the former minister also statedIt appeared that Western leaders were beginning to understand the ineffectiveness of sanctions against Russia.
18 August 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin reached He danced with him at Kneissl’s wedding, after which the Austrian minister curtsied to the Russian leader, which was considered by critics as a sign of submission. The former head of the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that he managed to invite the president of the Russian Federation to the wedding completely spontaneously during the opening ceremony of the Hermitage exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in June 2018.
Formerly Kneissl statedThat it is impossible to completely stop trade with Russia.
Source: Gazeta
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