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Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein held a series of significant meetings during his official visit to Austria aimed at strengthening…

The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna – Vienna School of International Studies invites aspiring graduate students from Austria and around the world to discover…

The Austro-Arab Chamber of Commerce (AACC), in harmonious collaboration with the Vienna School of International Studies or Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, successfully…

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Vienna, December 8, 2022 – On December 7, the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna hosted an international conference on the theme «Central Asia: the age of reform» with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, Roman Vassilenko, Secretary General of the Austrian Foreign Ministry, Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal, representatives of state bodies and leading think tanks in Europe and the US, the press office of the Kazakh MFA reported.

The renowned Austrian architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au is planning to build an opera house complex in Sevastopol, the main port of Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that was illegally annexed by the Kremlin in March 2014. That act placed Russia under strict sanctions by the EU and US that remain in place to this day. The head of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Wolf D. Prix, designed the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. The Sevastopol project was reportedly commissioned by a foundati...