The Austrian Foreign Ministry has declared persona non grata four Russian diplomats working in Vienna, the newspaper Österreich reports, citing a statement from the department. As specified, it is going about two employees of the Russian embassy, who were suspected of activities “incompatible with their diplomatic status”, and two other employees of the Russian permanent
Austria cannot simply stop paying for Russian gas, this requires an appropriate legal basis, and now there is none, according to the Head of the OMV Austrian oil company that is the largest one in Central Europe, Alfred Stern. He added that industrial enterprises and energy producers consume more than 70 per cent of the
Austria is going to lift restrictions on air traffic with Russia on November 9 in response to Moscow’s step, which was announced by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Climate Protection, Ecology, Energy, Transport, Innovation and Technology of Austria Magnus Brunner. According to Brunner, last year’s restrictions due to COVID-19 demonstrated the importance of
Iran and the United States carried out several rounds of negotiations on the reactivation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the 2015 nuclear agreement that Washington unilaterally withdrew on in 2018. The last discussions took place in June 2021, before the presidential elections in Iran, Sputnik reports. Russia is calling for the timely
Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met his Austrian counterpart, Alexander Schallenberg, in Vienna, Austria. Austria’s diplomat noted that ties between Russia and the EU have hit historic lows and warned that both sides need to urgently work on forming a partnership, RT reports. On August 25, the Austrian Foreign Minister expressed his concern about
A ten-year-old Austrian boy, Matthäus Brandstetter, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to lose faith in Europe, RIA Novosti reports, whose correspondent personally visited the young Austrian. In a letter to Putin, Matthäus writes that Europe and Russia are close neighbours that are economically connected with each other and, in his opinion, should interact much
Denis Irodov, an 18-year-old student of the Novosibirsk biathlon complex, won the Biathlon World Championship in the individual race (12.5 km with four firing lines) in the city of Obertilliach (Austria), the press service of the International Biathlon Union in Russia reports. It is noted that among the highest awards of the young athlete today
Russian figure skaters Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won gold at the European Figure Skating Championship in ice dancing, reports VM.RU. The competition took place in Austria. Athletes in a free dance showed a result of 131.69 points. According to the results of several stages, they scored a total of 220.42 points. The second place
