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tv   Karin Knaisl  RUSSIA24  August 21, 2022 9:24am-10:01am MSK

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it became and already in the fall of 2020 i decided that i would have to leave austria; this was a forced decision in the fall of 2020, let me remind you. this was long before the military conflict and long before i joined the board of directors of rosneft, but even then i was attacked on the streets of vienna. they called me a russian pig, a russian prostitute, and i could no longer work for vasya when my two books came out, 1 in june, the second in september 2021 they were boycotted, so i had to redeem part of the face myself, no one wanted to review them in the library in relation to me. i would say defa, there was a ban on work in the fall of 2020. it became clear to karen kneis that she must leave the country with her animals. she went to france for the first time. osta vlast in hostels and hotels, the french
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secret services had a hand in ensuring that the accommodation train was not simple, as i said in the fall of 2020. i left austria with me. i took my dogs my pony. they are over there, i think you can get to know them better. i have been looking for an apartment for a long-term lease for a long time, only in the fall of 2021. i finally found housing by french intelligence, contacted the owners of my house, asked them and literally told them the following. don't let her in the door. and what is most curious about me personally. no one contacted even then my name was blacklisted. and this is even before the resolution of the european parliament from the end of may, when sanctions were demanded against me, but i i'm obviously on some lists i don't know anything about, and to me that goes against all legal norms and the rule of law by comparison. even in former times,
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for example, in the 17th century during the witch hunt to them. at the very least, the charges were brought before the jury, with whom they had to answer and there were protocols. all this was recorded somewhere. but what is happening to me, this company, carried out by the media, and about many things, is not recorded at all. i only know indirectly but never come across it directly, what am i guilty of russian pig should be hanged animal killer mole kgb threat of physical violence and insults more and more slanderous articles appeared in the professional media, daily life currying, nysl more and more like a nightmare i contacted two lawyers. in austria, they successfully completed 26 trials with them in the past at that time, that is, in the spring of 2020. i was accused of killing animals, allegedly. i poisoned them, in particular, in information appeared that i
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used a novice substance for poisoning, but it was only in the beginning the company was huge there are many reasons for this, we can discuss them later and in the last few months new attacks have begun saying that i am here in the south of france living a luxurious life in a villa. on the cote d'azur and bathe in money. here's how it was presented. and when the military conflict in ukraine began, statements appeared that the kneisel was rowing money with a shovel there and did not want to help refugees, and so on. this is where it all started. i don't live in luxury here, because no matter how much i teach at two universities in moscow, no matter how much it receives compensation from rosneft for its activities on the board of directors, due to sanctions, all these amounts are still blocked. i do not have access to this money, which probably was, perhaps before the sanctions they literally tried to drown me in all this, so i applied. two
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law firms, but it didn't end there, because there were articles because of the kremlin stones. yesterday, literally, the newspapers were full of headlines that i worked for the kgb for 30 years and was a spy for the austrian government. this is due to the fact that here in france i knew a russian who worked for the kgb and it so happened that we studied at the same academy. in paris 1992. i had the opportunity to get a scholarship there at the invitation of the french government, and i studied for a year at the national school of administration and worked in the prefecture for half a year, but i never had any personal contacts with sergei zhirnov. my social circle was different. this is an unimaginable lie, according to france without housing without a lawyer, not the best condition for giving a decent rebuff, but alone, if she did not want to ignore the persecution in the media and the absurd accusations against her, she also did not want to leave unanswered the threats that the known sent her every day
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i was repeatedly threatened with reprisal in austria and also here the threat came from austria germany reached even before the prefecture most. i received by email. some were thrown into my mailbox and no one wanted to take it seriously, that the content was written there, something like the following russian pig. you need to hang putin's prostitute. you need to have your throat cut and buried alive, and we 'll be watching this action. this is the wildest thing i've read carling, had to defend against politicians, both in austria and in france. she considers them corrupt, the way the austrian elite treated her reminded her in the order of the thirties of the last century. became hard, she was no longer surprised. why did adolf hitler rely on the austrians when choosing the leadership of the ss constant attacks were made her suspicious, even during our filming. she
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couldn't rule out that some secret agent was watching her and eavesdropping on her conversation 3 weeks ago on sunday. i contacted the former federal president. austria heins fischer. we are talking. sometimes i said that when in germany there was a threat of sanctions against gerhard schroeder from the european parliament, chancellor schultz immediately took a clear position, he said that there was no question of schroeder being on the sanctions list. in austria newspapers were full of headlines. hooray all corinne tyson's assets will be confiscated. this is my property. this is the house of money, for which 120,000 euros. i earned money and then built it for another 12 years and that was it. this is long before, in their opinion, i began to work for someone from russia, here is how austria reacted; there was not a single person who would say from a legal point of view. it's illegal. i would. to you, an eu citizen whose house would be confiscated, i asked former president hines fischer if he was ready to somehow
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support me, so that at least someone would do something did, he refused, so i have no way to somehow defend myself against these accusations, the media and no one in austria has the courage to publicly speak out in my defense and say stop it, she left the country. she doesn't oppose austria. i haven't founded an opposition party. who controls karen's bullying, who she 's targeted for, whether the editors are angry old enemies or orders come from the very top, there are many reasons why i'm in the spotlight of this kind. i would say that all this dirt, which originally appeared revolved around animal abuse. if i were a man, then i would have been accused of sexual harassment of pedophilia or something else a man in my opinion long ago. more at risk in my case is the cruelty to animals that has been
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attributed to me by the public, causing outrage second only to paedophilia. and this is largely due to the fact that one of my first official actions in december 2017. there was an advertising budget. in austria it is very corrupted system taxpayer money is wasted there millions are thrown around, giving it to the newsrooms for good reporting and speech. it's not about some invitation to dinner at the hotel, it 's not about travel, it's about millions of euros over the past 20 years. corruption took root in austria very much and i put an end to this corruption scheme, which caused many media to react to me like a bull to a red rag. i reported this to the parliamentary commission of inquiry on making ibiza gay in may 2021 when i was so say little robin hood little hero for a short time alone against the mafia, if you like, when they threatened with my house - it reminded me of chicago in the thirties, where the small grocer said he was not going to pay 100
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dollars for a roof this week. and this was one of the reasons, but not the only one. i can't say right now if there are any other customers there? i would interpret. it is and it is quite curious. i thought about it a lot during my sleepless nights , now i'm 57.5. and it all started when i was 54 55 years old, and then i realized that it was no coincidence that under adolf hitler, most of the leadership of the ss and the gestapo came from austria, they were not sicily, ireland or dagestan, i thought a lot about this. these were the austrians, the inhabitants of central europe, a mixture of explosive hypocrisy and cowardice, for many inhabitants of the middle east, europe seems to be a distant paradise, they go to terrible hardships, they flee to where they expect to find security and freedom, but karinth nice has lost faith in europe it seems to her that the middle east is more safe now i'm going to lebanon because
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among other things. and who would have thought there is more freedom in lebanon, you say that you will feel freer there. yes, as far as i have been teaching for a long time. in austria, she lectured for several years at an american university. i would like to do this again. take for example the problem of climate change, the problem of the military conflict in ukraine or the problem of a pandemic. these are all topics where there are only two sides, black and white, from the point of view of science, this is a failure and when compared with the debates that i can have at universities in lebanon egypt israel i have much more freedom of speech than in austria let alone germany i often had german students say wow to me. you can still discuss things very openly and critically in different ways. questions regardless of whether we are talking about israel's war in syria or anything else?
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let's play out the scenario that if karen knaiswi stayed in france what would be the consequences? what would her opponents be capable of is it really safe? if my safety were at stake, it is obvious that there are many people who are interested in me, let's say, the public, judge, whimsical, a good lawyer is needed here, if you are not careful, you can quickly become a victim of a violent mob. not for nothing that in the middle ages a fence was erected around the porridge, before tomatoes flew from the crowd, today there are vicious tweets and emails no mercy, and for a former foreign minister like karen kneisel, she coped with the pressure. in the morning at in the stable i have to deal with material manure during the day with immaterial and when it is material manure you smell it, they
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material suddenly flies right in your face, so the finer manure calms me a little but where are the lawyers karen nysen, former colleagues political associates journalists and customers. they have all turned away. from her, even relatives and friends joined the campaign against carling neisler, as for friends, a friend is always the one to call at 3:00 in the morning and say, that i have problems with the car and i had several such people, but two of them, unfortunately, died were my age. and anyway, i don't have many friends left, and last year i had an accident. i broke my ankle in several places and was completely immobilized for three months. i could not. what to do? i didn't have the opportunity to take care of the animals. thank god i could afford to hire a person who looked after them, and i still thought that i had friends, and i i thought about whether to contact them, whether they could come.
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i thought i might still be remembered from when i was a minister for a few months, and i hope it becomes possible again. western observers are sure that naisil was curry dancing with the devil himself. if you look objectively, she invited one of the most powerful people in the world to her wedding day full of events and consequences. media coverage with an unquenchable fire without regard to morality and ethics will she invite the russian president to a dance once again, yes, definitely, i will not be like the president of germany steinmeier kaes, in all my mistakes, calling into question everything that has been done over the years of my career. i am responsible for my every action. and what, pray tell, is the crime in that i sent an invitation to president putin, i did not expect that he would really come. it was a surprise that he accepted this invitation. and in general, it was all spontaneous,
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as i already said, i danced with him, so to speak, to share the joy that we had with my fiancé. we were both in our 50s for both. first wedding. and this invitation just happened to fit. it was pure coincidence. so it turned out my husband and i waltzed. after the ceremony, about 4-5 minutes, and then i went up to the president, he was there and invited him. it was spontaneous, there was no calculation. it's just that there was such an atmosphere. and now scientific studies are writing about this dancing as a crime against democracy, and dancing. there was just such a figure the president bowed. it is on the video kissed the hand, and i curtsied. as i was taught in dance school and how it's done on the party floor. and now it's all quoting this gesture was defamed and dumped in the mud. and these are the same
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gestures that make up life, and diplomacy makes history in its book. i am trying to point out these completely different aspects that should also accompany interpersonal and interstate relations. we cannot think only in terms of missile bases of gdp males. and so on diplomacy is more than a political science dilemma that we are facing in the current situations. and i know this from the european commission is that only political scientists sit there, there are no historians. there are no geographers - these are not the people who are really engaged in diplomacy and everything that is connected with it, if there are no forbidden ones, then only interlocutors ready to listen to it have become very few, it's time to start all over again. well,
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now karen nicely moved to lebanon, this trip , along with all the pets, was fraught with many obstacles. organizing such a move was not easy. after all, it was not only about me a couple of books and pieces of furniture. i took with me my two boxer dogs and two scottish ponies, the rest of the living creatures are chickens. ducks aquarium with fish, i had to leave, i gave them to friends, but organizing everything, it was not easy. i contacted several forwarding agencies when i finally found a forwarder who was willing to take on this task. the furniture was taken away, while around june 2 all things were already packed, and i sat alone with the animals in a completely empty house and slept on a mattress for about 14 days of food, i didn’t it was like in the area where i lived to buy something without a car and hard. and her by that moment.
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i already gave. it was an extremely difficult time for my friend from austria, because everything was endlessly postponed and pushed back, the last few weeks were especially difficult, but i arrived with the dogs, then cargo arrived, it has already been about 3 weeks since i settled here with on the very first day, i was engaged in obtaining a residence permit, opening a bank account with a tax number, and this daily struggle with the local bureaucracy, which reminds me a little of the old ottoman officials of the 19th century. thus, the problems of the former minister were not resolved along with the departure from the country from time to time they put spokes in her wheels, because her glory runs ahead of her, and yet this is heaven and earth. compared to what she had to endure in europe, here i am not subjected to such attacks. what i was subjected to in austria, where they downright spat in my face and were rude, this is a pleasant side when i am talking now. freedom in
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lebanon is only hope. because i haven't experienced it yet and i don't know if it works in practice, for example, that i can fly to moscow for a week and won't have big problems when i return. i can watch the russia today website here and maybe even catch this tv channel, i can talk to people of any background, even on controversial topics, without falling into line. at the same time in black and white patterns. and this, unfortunately. everywhere in europe everything is a little different here, and in lebanon for decades the motto has been valid. live and let live, even for centuries on the internet and in the headlines, the hatred has not weakened, but currying nice knows how to deal with it so far in real life. she has a hideout. she lives with a syrian family in their house in the
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lebanese mountains where they do not bring joy to the locals. i said, i urgently need a house where i could stay with my animals, and such a house in lebanon was not easy to find, but the owner kindly agreed to provide a house and allowed me to stay with two ponies, a mini-shite. i just could n't leave them from them. first i found for them place in austria, but then i was convinced that it was not very good there. here they are the stars of the first magnitude, when we go for a walk, everyone wants to take a picture. children greet them. they live in this area. basically, the druze druze are a separate independent ethnic group. they are neither muslim nor christian. their faith was formed under the influence of late or mystical beliefs , the druze live mainly in the lebanese mountains in syria and partly in the north of israel, that is, in the former
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palestine, as well as on the dutch heights. everything is very close, a few kilometers away, cargoes believe, including in reincarnation. they have a completely different attitude towards animals and nature than the adherents of monotheistic religions such as christianity, where for centuries the conviction of man dominated, subjugate the earth to yourself with all the problems that we have here now - inflation. in 220% shortage of fuel electricity 2 hours a day, if you're lucky regarding the interpersonal sphere. i have feeling that the current crisis. these sufferings unite representatives of different faiths and the confrontation between sunnis and shiites. not as strong as it was in the nineties, there is no that christian arrogance, especially on the part of the maranites, however, there were enough people who said what you do with the druze, what you
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forgot with them. you must live with christians. i answered. i accidentally. there was a house and a week of people, i am very glad and grateful that i can use this house, but for some, all this is very deeply rooted in their heads along with the family that accepted it. karen kneissl lives in very simple conditions , they cook on an open fire, as energy is in short supply electricity is only a few hours a day from food. first of all, what can be stored without a refrigerator. mutual support is the basis of carling's joint life. nice contributes by giving home lessons to the son of a syrian family with whom the abdol has been living for 10 years, but he did not really go to school. his father sent him every day to the auto repair shop at 7:30 in the morning. he returned at five or six in the evening. i asked his father no longer send it to the workshop. i suggested giving him two or three school lessons a day instead. and now we are learning math with him, and also studying english in a
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car repair shop. let's come back when he's 16 , and until then, he should enjoy his childhood to the fullest. it is unlikely that any of the guests will suspect that his teacher was only a few years ago. as head of the foreign ministry, an entire country regularly shook hands with the most powerful people in the world, if you do not count a few souvenirs on the wall and what she took with her to lebanese photos with russian politicians are not an accident since my work as a minister. i have photographs from meetings with the pope of rome by various colleagues from the european union, however. i deliberately took these pictures with me back to france meeting with the minister of foreign affairs sergey lavrov and with vladimir putin with whom i had 3-4 times to conduct bilateral negotiations for me more interesting memories because i had the impression that i was in a society adults to the west of the vein. often the male counterparts from the eu i call them teenagers
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are constantly agitated constantly in a position of moral superiority. if you want to talk to adults, then you have to go to moscow. beijing islamabad or new delhi are not limited to the political sphere. learning russian in online courses provides her with a great opportunity to escape from everyday problems in especially difficult times, whether here or in france . grammar study. and this i would say, partly with the ambassador of my life, because you are busy with something completely different, and not with all these attacks and hatred that are being poured on you, so i often say that russian grammar gave me really great meaning in life. but even more important are strong friendships . they are the reason why karen knassi chose levan for her immigration with the help of longtime companions, she was able to find
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suitable housing for her animals and overcome many domestic difficulties in a restaurant in bible we meet natalie with her carnet. niisl has been friends since childhood. our mothers worked in austrian airlines, when it was still a really serious airline, and beirut was one of the most important airports, and naid's mother natalie and my mother knew each other at work, and my mother always told me that you love anahit and her husband arseniy for me this is a remembrance childhood. we played together when natalie and her parents were in vienna, as a real friendship began between us, when we were 18-19 years old in lebanon, there were heavy fights, you were constantly in austria between and austria yes, that's right, and in 1989 natalie returned to lebanon since then i have visited her, in fact every year and that was 24
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years ago. and in total, we have known each other for 53 years with 4 years as karen kneis and it is not easy for many to support her even when the mood becomes negative, perhaps because of this she lost some friends, but for natalie everything. it never mattered what they don't say or tell all this is bad propaganda no need for me against those people who write only to write i know it's currin for me personally - it's karin. she's never been different. thank you, this is the main thing when you don’t need to explain anything, when you don’t need to pretend to be someone, when you are not reduced to a certain function for the sake of unconditional friendship. and the carling naisei is ready to give up a lot and lead a simple life in a country where for
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most people everyday life is determined by the struggle for existence. at the same time, lebanon has known better times if it shows one corner in the center of beirut that illustrates this evolution here in beirut. i have seen total destruction 30 years ago, when there was a war, only during the war, people always said the coat of arms, after the war we will do this and that, that is, there was a certain date of hope. then the country began to recover very actively in terms of real estate and very weakly in institutional and social terms. therefore, the war never truly ended on a human level. unfortunately, the property has been rebuilt. and now we are standing here in the most beautiful part of the city of beirut in our time. these were the luxury stores of the embassy branch banks, insurance companies, but remained dichel wonderful everyone needs it, though with the help of dhl
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i moved a new economic plan. nothing happens the service industry has always defined the life of the city in the forties and fifties. beirut has always been a city of services, banks, insurance companies. here it worked, people spoke three languages. it is a service society and the people here are by nature, friendly, responsive and able to penetrate other cultures. to have an apartment here meant success. and now these times have passed here. one feels a complete decline , only sick cats and completely destroyed buildings remain. the economic crisis of 2019 caused the lebanese pound exchange rate on the black market to deviate from the official us dollar pegged money. suddenly depreciated and prices skyrocketed, an explosion in the port
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with colossal destruction in 2020. weakened the economy even more. countries explosion in the summer of 2020 , aggravated the situation before that, the banking sector collapsed. it happened in the fall of 2019, and then the pandemic came during it, everyone was willy-nilly locked. and as soon as restrictions were lifted here, people began to leave 10-20 thousand people a month. the levants. there are always relatives somewhere, be it brazil france or australia, many of the inhabitants left because they spoke. this country has no future, no future for our children. so five to ten 20,000 people a month continue to emigrate when i go to a lawyer to get documents for a tax number and so on. first question. are you crazy gone? what are you even doing here? who today
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comes to lebanon i really found myself in such a strange surreal situation that levan told me this to come around the opportunity to have the right to live more. i don't need. karen kneisel sees the infusion's living conditions as a grim omen for europe , a future scenario that many would have laughed at a year ago. now it doesn't seem so unreal anymore. i believe that what we are now seeing here will happen in europe, the main similarity is corruption, when the system is not credible. grass payers, the population simply ceases to believe in the state in institutions, and this is exactly what is happening now in many societies people can no longer afford everyday life, because inflation is rising, because wages are no longer enough, rent for many years
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is too high for average family. it 's a combination of many things. and if you add to this the fact that the cost of energy becomes unaffordable, then a lot of things collapse. as an expert on the middle east, karen kneissl understands differences between western and arab society she thinks countries like lebanon are better at coping with crises than like germany i admire the strength of the levanese many of whom i am friends with who still send their kids to school pay the bills and i dont i understand how many of them deal with it. with what confidence they enter into life, but i think that the matter is in the eastern society, as such, if the lebanese are israelis, palestinians or heracites. they are just much better prepared to going through hard times because they are able to endure suffering, because they have family cohesion, and they don't just go through
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such hard times. now they have been experiencing them for 40 years, but now they say that many things are much more difficult than during the war, but they have some kind of unity, as before. there is a certain lightness of being, which is felt despite the difficulty. this is what defines a given society, and this is what our western societies lack. i can live when electricity is on for 2 hours a day. day. i have batteries to keep the internet working. i charge my laptops somehow it works, but a lebanese society where the main thing is the service sector is fundamentally different from economic centers like germany or austria maybe in germany and europe in general it really should get much worse before it gets better . whether there will be a way out of the crisis is unknown, but if it happens, there may be a place again for the former minister, foreign affairs, who was expelled from her native country for being she advocated pragmatic relations with russia and remains unshakable even by karen nice and does not let
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herself be defeated by a moralist who in the end resorts to the most immoral means not to lead her astray. only she knows where her path leads.
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