Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, who invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to her wedding in August 2018, left to live in France under a hail of criticism and media pressure.

She calls herself a political refugee.

Attacks on the former minister have intensified significantly after the deployment of a special Russian military operation in Ukraine, Kronen Zeitung reported.

According to the ex-minister, she had to leave Austria in 2020 due to many unrest. Life is ruined as there is a de facto ban on work. Spiteful critics still cannot forgive the dance with the Russian president, which ended with the famous curtsy.