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Karin Kneissl: Vienna’s ties to Moscow and the impact of Austrian neutrality

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The Evolution of the Austrian Foreign Policy

There are many people inside Austria who now look at the very close ties, which you perhaps symbolise more than anybody else. And they have grave concerns that it led to major strategic mistakes inside the Austrian government. So there are all kinds of accusations in the room which should be decided at court. No, I am not working for a Russian spy network. Well, you chose to raise the issue of espionage. There is a former KGB agent, Sergei Sjirnov, who worked for the KGB until the early 1990s. She was later poisoned, and he left Russia, and I believe he made a home in France. He has been running from one media TV talk in France to the

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