Cossacks and flowers as Putin dances at Austrian minister's wedding
VIENNA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin moved affecti onately intertwined with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, in the wake of getting a welcome that restriction commentators said undermined the West's position against Moscow New Year Sister Quotes Putin touched base in an auto conveying a bundle of blooms and went with, nearby media stated, by a troupe of Cossack artists booked to serenade the love birds. He was on a stopover on his approach to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside Berlin. Photos indicated Kneissl, 53, grinning in a long white and cream "dirndl" dress and conversing with Putin as they moved in a vineyard in southern Styria area, the setting of her wedding to business person Wolfgang Meilinger. Putin - who made a toast in German at the wedding, as indicated by the Kremlin - was imagined tuning in to her eagerly. The welcome amazed numerous in Vienna and Moscow, especially when the