Certainly comments on Austria’s foreign policy

The bilateral relationships could only be healthy with an independent foreign policy, he had also explained shortly before failure by the FPÖ-ÖVP government negotiations.

On Friday evening, Ljubinski reacted to a publication of Alexander Schallenberg (ÖVP). After the public dispute of US President Donald Trump, the incumbent Federal Chancellor and Foreign Minister had spread with the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj on X, in which Russia described as aggressor and supported the support of efforts by Ukraine for a comprehensive, fair and permanent peace. “Very interesting. Applies to A. Schallenberg’s favorite thesis, who has announced his soon -to -be from all functions, even today and now also for the past Selenskyj?”, The Russian ambassador wrote on Facebook.

Criticism of Austrian memory of Crimea cast by Russia

With “complete and hopeless detachment of Austrian foreign policy from reality”, the diplomat on Facebook commented on a statement by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs two days earlier on the 11th anniversary of the beginning of the Annexion of the Crimea peninsula. The Austrian Foreign Office had condemned the Russian occupation of the 2014 in 2014 as “illegally” and, like the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Cherson, Luhansk and Saporischschja, which have been occupied by Russia since 2022 in different dimensions.

Ambassador and message have recently criticized the Austrian media that would not publish guest comments and letters to the editor. “It has long been absolutely clear to us that the media Austrian mainstream ignores the real reasons and requirements of the conflict in Ukraine,” it said in an initially unpublished text that was finally published on Facebook. Ljubinski repeated a well -known representation of the official Russia, which as the root of the evil, especially the Ukrainian Euromaidan from 2013/2014 and its consequences.

Tass correspondent

Likewise, a letter to the editor initially remained unpublished to an Austrian weekly magazine, in which the ambassador dealt with press freedom in Austria in connection with the expulsion of two correspondents from the state Russian news agency TASS last summer. The two were referred to the country by chance or not by chance after they had unsuccessfully tried to flash for a press conference of the then US Secretary of State Antony. This expulsion was quiet and did not provide any media interest in Austria, Ljubinski complained. The diplomat did not carry out what he means by “media interest”. In the APA’s digital media archive, around 50 Austrian publications from last year can be found in connection with the process, in which the TASS correspondent Arina Dawidjan and Iwan Popow affected by a “negative security assessment” were mentioned by name.

Worsening of bilateral relationships

However, the ambassador has repeatedly repeated articulated allegations to Russian media since 2022, which made the Austrian side solely responsible for the deterioration in bilateral relationships. “To what extent and how soon their recovery (the relationship, note) can succeed, only depends on Vienna and its ability to represent an independent foreign policy line with consideration of the interests of the citizens,” said Ljubinski in early February shortly before the failure of FPÖ-ÖVP negotiations at the Vienna Correspondent of the State Russian news agency Ria Novosti.