VIENNA, Jan 26 Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said he wouldn't dance with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as his predecessor as Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl did. «, — said Schallenberg in an interview with the ORF TV channel. An independent member of the board of directors of Rosneft, Karin Kneissl, served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria from 2017 to 2019. In August 2018, Putin attended the wedding of Kneisl and financier Wolfgang Meilinger. The Russian leader presented the couple with a painting with rural motifs, an old oil extractor and a Tula samovar, made a toast in German and danced with the bride. The press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov then noted that Putin spent an hour at the event. trading partner
