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Vladimir Putin Visits Vienna to Mark 50th Anniversary of Gas Deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Austria on Tuesday in his first trip to the West since being re-elected to the Kremlin and was rebuffed when he called for European Union sanctions to be lifted.

The Russian leader was given full military honours as he met with Alexander van der Bellen, the Austrian president, and Sebastian Kurz, […]

Secret Meetings Behind Closed Doors and Sharp Criticism in Public Between US and Russia

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met privately – behind closed doors Vienna to discuss their differences over Ukraine, but their public comments were explosive when they had addressed the OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vienna, they traded allegations about interference in Ukraine and there appeared little room for […]

Austria And The Bar Politics, Video

Together with music, cocktails and bright candles under the reflection of faint lights at the Austrian bars L’Ombra and KIX, both owned by Dr. Heinz Altmann, politicians, ministers, lawyers and journalists always sit and laugh among the guests.

Mr. Valentin, the young man who inherited this bar of politics from his father, said that the Ukraine […]

Russia Fighting ِِAggressive War Against Ukraine

Address by His Excellency Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. UN Photo/Cia Pak

Russia has been accused by the President of Ukraine of fighting an “aggressive war” against his country.

The UN has said that around 8,000 people have been killed in the eastern European country as a result of a conflict between government […]

Leonid Krawtschuk hat Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer in Wien getroffen

Leonid Krawtschuk am Freitag in Wien beim Treffen mit Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer. Bild Kawther Salam

Leonid Krawtschuk war von 1991 bis 1994 erster Präsident der Ukraine nach der Unabhängigkeit von der Sowjetunion. Bis 2006 saß er für die Vereinigte Sozialdemokratische Partei der Ukraine als Abgeordneter im Parlament. Am Freitag war der 80-Jährige zur „Europäischen Präsidentenkonferenz“ des […]

Offizieller Arbeitsbesuch des Staatspräsidenten der Mongolei in Österreich

Wien – Die Mongolei ist zumindest aktuell nicht an einer Mitgliedschaft in der von Russland dominierten Eurasischen Wirtschaftsunion interessiert. “Wir haben derzeit keine Interesse, dieser Union beizutreten”, sagte der mongolische Präsident Tsakhiagiin (Tsakhia) Elbegdorj am Dienstag in Wien, nachdem er von Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer empfangen worden war.

Elbegdorj (sprich: Elbegdordsch) ergänzte allerdings, dass sein Land theoretisch […]

Protests against Russian President Visit To Austria

President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin laid wreath at the Schwarzenberg square at the memorial of the Red Army (“Russian monument”). The monument commemorates the 1945 fallen soldiers of the Red Army in Austria.

Formal military ceremonies took place after the arrival of President Putin in the Schwarzenberg area. The guard of the Austrian Armed Forces was also […]

Putin Accuses US of Trying to Hinder Gas Pipeline Plan

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, the President of the Russian Federation, visited Austria today June 24 2014 accompanied by his foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov, his Minister of Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters Vladimir Andreevich Puchkov, and a high-level political team. President Putin was invited by his Austrian counterpart Dr. Heinz Fischer.

President Fischer […]