tv Karin Knaisl RUSSIA24 August 21, 2022 4:24pm-5:01pm MSK
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it is known and, as for me, it contradicts all legal norms and the rule of law for comparison, even in former times, 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. everything, it 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 know only indirectly, but never face it directly, what am i guilty of russian pig should be hanged killer of animals mole kgb threat of physical violence and insults more and more slanderous articles appeared in the professional media, daily life curring, nysl more and more like a nightmare i contacted two lawyers. in austria, she has successfully completed 26 trials with them in the past. time, that is, in the spring of 2020. i was accused of
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killing animals, allegedly. i poisoned them, in particular, information appeared in the media that i used a novice substance for poisoning. but this it was just 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 living a luxurious life in a villa here in the south of france. 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 in two universities in moscow, no matter how much compensation she receives from rosneft for her activities on the board of directors, due to sanctions, all these amounts are still blocked. i don't have access to this money. what probably was, perhaps, before the sanctions, they
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literally tried to drown me in all this, so i turned to two law firms, but nothing ended there, because there were articles for 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 a home without a lawyer. not the best condition for giving a decent rebuff, but one, if you didn't want to. ignoring
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the harassment in the media and the absurd accusations against her, she also did not want to leave unanswered the threats that the unknown sent her every day i was repeatedly threatened with reprisal in austria a. also here the threat came from behind germany germany even reached 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 ever read. karen knows she had to defend herself against politicians, both in austria and in france. she considers them corrupt, the way the austrian elite treated her reminded her of the order of the thirties of the last century. became hard, she was no longer surprised. why adolf hitler relied on the austrians to choose
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the leadership of the ss constant attacks made her suspicious, even during our filming. she could n't rule out the possibility that some secret agent was watching her and eavesdropping on her conversation three 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 gerhardashroeder from the european parliament, chancellor scholz immediately took a clear position, he said that there could be no question of schroeder being on the sanctions list. in austria, the newspapers were full of headers. 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, that's how austria reacted, there was not a single person who would say in a
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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 support me, so that at least someone did something, he refused, so i don’t have the opportunity 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 enough, she left the country. she doesn't oppose austria. i haven't founded an opposition party. who controls karen's bullying, who she is targeted by, angry newsrooms, old enemies , or directives from the very top, there are many reasons why i am 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
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in my opinion long ago. more at risk in my case is the cruelty to animals that has been 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 away giving it to newsrooms for good reporting and speech. it's not about some hotel dinner invitation, it 's about travel, it's about millions of euros over the past 20 years. corruption has taken root in austria very much and i put an end to this corruption scheme, which caused many media to react to me like a bastard to a red rag. i reported this to the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the gay ibiza case in may 2021, then i was, so to speak little robin hood little hero for a short time alone against the mafia. if you like,
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when they threatened my house, it reminded me of chicago in the thirties, where the small grocer said he wasn't going to pay $100 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 i i realized then 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 from sicily, ireland or dagestan. i thought a lot about this. these were the austrians. central europeans are a mixture of explosive hypocrisy and cowardice to many in the middle east europe seems like a faraway paradise they go to terrible hardships they run to where they expect to find safety and freedom but carinth nice has lost her
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faith in her it seems that the middle east is safer now i'm going to to lebanon because apart from everything else. 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 the pandemic is everything a topic where there are only two sides black and white from the point of view of science is a failure and compared to the debates that i can lead in universities lebanon egypt israel then, i have much more freedom of speech. than you austria not to mention germany i often had german students who told me wow. you can still discuss things very openly and critically on
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questions whether it's about israel's war in syria or anything else? let's play out the scenario that if karen kneisen had stayed in france. what would be the consequences? what would her opponents be capable of, is her security really? would be under a threat to my safety, 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. it is not for nothing that in the middle ages a fence was erected around the scaffold before the crowd flew, tomatoes, today angry tweets and e-mails have no mercy, and for a former foreign minister like karen kneisel coped with the pressure. in the morning in the stable i have to deal with the material
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manure during the day with him material and when it is material manure, you feel its smell, they material suddenly flies right in your face, so the manure from the stable 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 someone 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
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hire a person who looked after them, and then i still thought that i had friends, and i thought whether to contact them, whether they could come. i thought i might still be remembered for when i was a minister for a few months, and i hope that it becomes possible again. western observers are sure that nice danced 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 dance again, yes, definitely, i will not be like president germany steinmeier kaes, in all their mistakes , they began to question everything that had been done over the years of their career. i am responsible for my every action. and what, pray tell, is the crime in that i sent
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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, 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. how i was taught in dance school, and how it is done on
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festive floor. and now it's all quoting this gesture was defamed and dumped in the dirt. and these are the same 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 - this is more than a political science dilemma that we are facing in the current situation, and i know this from the european commission is the fact that only political scientists are sitting 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
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interlocutors ready to listen to it have become very few , it's time to start all over again. well, now karen nice 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 two of his boxer dogs and two scottish ponies, the rest 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
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and slept on a mattress for about 14 days of food, i didn’t have the same as in the area where i lived buy anything without a car and hard. and by that time , i already gave it away. 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’s been about 3 weeks since i settled here with the very first day i was busy with obtaining a residence permit, opening a bank account with a tax number and this is a 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
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they downright spat in my face and were rude, this is a pleasant side when i am talking now. the freedom of the infusion is only a hope cause i haven't experienced it yet and i don't know if it works in practice for example, the fact that i can fly to moscow for a week and will not 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 abated, but currying nice knows how to deal with it
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while in real life. she has a hideout. she lives with a syrian family in their house in the lebanese mountains where they bring joy to the locals. i said, i urgently need a house where i can 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 to stay with two ponies, mini-shite. i just could n't leave them from them. at first i found a place for them in austria, but then i was convinced that it was not very good there. and i took them to me and brought them to france well, and then somehow managed to smuggle them here. 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
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, the druze live mainly in the lebanese mountains in syria and partly in the north of israel, that is, in the former palestine, as well as on the dutch heights, because everything very close by, a few kilometers away, cargoes believe, including in reincarnation. they have a completely different attitude towards animals and nature than adherents of monotheistic religions such as christianity, where for centuries the belief has been dominated by man, subjugate the earth with all the problems that we have here now inflation is -220% fuel shortage electricity 2 hours per day, if you're lucky regarding the interpersonal sphere. i have a feeling that the current crisis. these sufferings unite representatives of different faiths and 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
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maranites, however, there were enough people who said what you do with the druze, what you 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, since 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 not to send more sprays to the workshop. i am
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offered to give him two or three school lessons a day instead. and now we are learning math with him, and also studying english in a 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. the mida of the whole country regularly shook hands with the most influential people in the world, if you do not take into account a few souvenirs on the wall and the fact that she took photographs with russian politicians with her to lebanon. not an accident since my days as minister. i have photographs from meetings with the pope of rome by various colleagues from the european union, however. i deliberately took with me precisely these meetings with him and back to france with foreign minister sergei 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
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in the society of adults to the west of the vein. often male colleagues from the eu, i call them teenagers 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. they are all these attacks and hatred that are on pour you, so i often say that russian grammar gave me a really great meaning to life. but even more important are strong friendships . they are the reason why karen
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knassi chose levan for her immigration with the help of longtime companions, she was able to find 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 mother worked for austrian airlines when she was still a really serious airline, and beirut was one of the most important airports, and nait's mother natalie and my mother knew each other at work, and my mother always told me that anahit and her husband arseniy loved me this is a childhood memory. 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
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1989 natalie returned to lebanon since then i visited her, actually every year and that was 24 years ago. 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 natalia everything. it never mattered what they don't say or say it's all bad propaganda don't mind me against those people who write just to write i know her currin for me personally is karin she's never been different. thanks this the main thing is when you don’t need to explain anything, when you don’t need to pose as someone, when you are not reduced to a certain function for the sake of unconditional
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friendship and refuge, carling nice and is ready to give up a lot and lead a simple life in a country where everyday life is determined by most people struggle for existence. at the same time, levan knew better times and shows one corner in the center of beirut which illustrates this evolution here. in take. i saw total destruction over 30 years ago when there was a war only during the war people always said oge, 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. it was the luxury
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stores of the embassy, banks, insurance companies, but dhl stayed wonderful for all this need. true, with the help of dichill, 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 those days are over. feels a total decline only left sick cats and completely destroyed buildings. the economic crisis of 2019 caused the lebanese pound exchange rate on the black market
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to deviate from the official us dollar pegged money. suddenly depreciated and prices skyrocketed, an explosion in the port 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 up. 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
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get documents for a tax number and so on. first question. are you out of your mind? what are you even doing here? who comes to lebanon today, i really turned out to be so strange the surreal situation that levan says to me is 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 think what we are seeing now will happen here 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, which is what is happening now in many societies, people can no longer afford everyday life, because inflation
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is rising, because wages are no longer enough, rents have been too high for the average family for many years. 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 currying, naisl understands the differences between western and arab society in her opinion, countries like lebanon are better cope with crises than, for example, germany. i admire the strength of the lebanese, with many of whom i am friends, who still send their children to school while still here and pay the bills. i don't understand how many of them deal with it. with what confidence they enter into life, but i think that the point is in the eastern society, as such, if the lebanese are israelis, palestinians or iraqis. they are simply much better prepared to get through hard times because they are able to
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endure suffering because they have family cohesion, and they are not just going through 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 with electricity for 2 hours a day. i have batteries to keep the internet working. i charge my laptops somehow it works, but lebanese society, where the main thing is the service sector, is fundamentally different from economic centers such as germany or austria, perhaps in germany and europe in general it really needs to 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 again be a place for the former minister of foreign
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affairs, who was expelled from her native country because she advocated pragmatic relations with russia and remains unshakable even karen nice and does not give defeat herself as a moralist, who in the end resort to the most immoral means not to lead her astray. only she knows where her path leads. summer will be interesting, right?
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