The Inventing the Future International Science Fiction Symposium. Session, The Art of Life: A Series of Interviews by Semyon Mikhailovsky. Karin Kneissl, Director of the Geopolitical Observatory on Russia's Key Problems - G.O.R.K.I. Center of the St. Petersburg State University; Foreign Minister of Austria in 2017-2019 (Austria), and Semyon Mikhailovsky, President of the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Art.