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The village of Petrushovo, which is located near Ryazan, is much better to Karin Kneissl than the Maldives or Seychelles. The ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Austria admitted that she really likes living there, RBC reports. According to her, she understands this world, with grandmothers, apples, summer, and a river, very well.
At the same time, when the holidays are over, she plans to return to Lebanon. She spends the summer in the Ryazan region, but her life is in Lebanon. She took only two suitcases and her dogs with her to Russia. She said that she writes books, studies the language, works as a teacher.
Kneisl was invited to teach at the G.O.R.K.I. (Geopolitical Observatory on Key Issues of Russia's Development), established in March at St. Petersburg State University.
Earlier, Karin Kneissl called the Russian world romantic. She spoke about this in Russian on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. According to her, now she is actively engaged in the study of the Russian language. A new world opens before her - the Russian world. She really likes it - "a big, romantic, melancholy world."
Russkiy Mir
