This was announced on Tuesday by the rector of the local university, Dmitri Bokov, on the messenger service Telegram. Kneissl explained Tuesday evening that we were talking about guest lectures. However, her professional focus remains the geopolitical think tank GORKI at St. Petersburg State University, she also wrote on Telegram.
“During her visit to the Ryazan State Sergei Yesenin University, we were able to agree: Karin Kneissl will teach with us. Details will follow,” explained Bokov. The former politician later informed that she would give two guest lectures each semester with a maximum length of two hours, the first in mid-February on the automobile industry, and referred to further lecture activities in other Russian universities.
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After appearing with Russian Foreign Office spokeswoman Marija Zakharova and Hollywood actor Steven Seagal at a conference on fake news in Moscow last Wednesday and commenting on the conflict between OMV and Gazprom on Russian state television from a wooden house on Thursday, Kneissl subsequently posted a photo Dogs against the backdrop of the Oka River. This also flows through the Ryazan Oblast, including not far from the village of Petrushovo in this region, where the Austrian woman built her own house in the summer of 2024, according to the Russian state news agency TASS. “Living in a small village in the beautiful Ryazan Oblast, where forests meet fields and I feel at home, I am pleased to interact with the most important university of this region,” Kneissl wrote Tuesday evening.