Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the widow of the Austrian president

Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the widow of the Austrian President Thomas Clestil. According to RIA Novosti , after the funeral service of Clestille, which took place in the Vienna Cathedral of St. Stefan, the Russian president approached Margot Leffler-Clestil, briefly talked with her, expressing sincere condolences about the death of her wife.

After the mourning ceremony of the Requiem in the Cathedral of St. Stefan, Putin held a conversation with the archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schenborn and expressed his condolences in connection with the death of Clestille.

In turn, Cardinal Schenborn expressed his gratitude to the Russian president because he personally arrived in Vienna in order to pay the last tribute to the federal president of Austria, who died on Wednesday.

Then Vladimir Putin and Austrian President Hinz Fisher got into the same car and went to the department of the Federal President of Austria, where a brief meeting of the presidents of the two countries will take place.