Austria's former foreign minister Karin Kneissl has moved to St. Petersburg to manage a think tank. A Russian military plane flew her and her ponies to Russia. She said she had decided to move to Russia to run a think tank at St. Petersburg University, reported Russia's state-owned Tass news agency. I decided to move to St. Petersburg for this work." AdvertisementAdvertisementKneissl said on social media that she took a Russian military plane to St. Petersburg along with her possessions — and ponies — as due to sanctions against Syria there were no commercial flights or DHL.

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