Russian president Vladimir Putin in Vienna today
The Russian president Vladimir Putin visits the Austrian capital today. The official welcoming is going to take place at 1:00pm.
Putin will stay only 24 hours in Vienna. He is going to leave tomorrow at 10:30am to Luxembourg.
Vladimir Putin will meet the Austrian president Heinz Fischer, and visit the Spanish Court Riding School of Vienna. The Russian president should also meet the president of the National Council Barbara Prammer and the Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer.
The dinner will be a state banquet in the halls of the Viennese Hofburg.
Tomorrow Putin is going to visit the monument of the Russian soldiers who died in Vienna during the second world war.