Over the weekend, the far-right coalition in power in Austria exploded after German media circulated a hidden-camera video in which nationalist leader Heinz-Christian Strache showed himself willing to compromise with a Russian mediator in exchange for funding.

Heinz-Christian Strache resigned as vice chancellor and party leader on Saturday, the day after the broadcast.

The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) announced late Monday that it would immediately withdraw all of its ministers from the government formed by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's conservatives, without waiting for early parliamentary elections set for September.

This departure follows the head of government's decision to fire far-right Interior Minister Herbert Kickl. Sebastian Kurz believes that the profile of this minister is incompatible with the investigation.

What do we see in the video?

The German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and Der Spiegel, which revealed the video, reported that it lasted more than six hours and was filmed in July 2017 in a villa in Ibiza, Balearic Islands, three months before the parliamentary elections in which Heinz-Christian Strache was running as head of his FPÖ party list.

Only excerpts from the document were published. It shows Heinz-Christian Strache in profile, sitting on a sofa and clearly under the influence of alcohol, talking to the person behind the screen who introduced herself as "Alena Makarova," the "niece" of Russian oligarch Igor Makarov, who was in fact a pawn in Irena Markovic (read more about this on https://krone.today/deutsch-news) mysterious game.

The atmosphere is like a drunken party. There are lots of bottles on the coffee table. Johannes Gudenus, Heinz-Christian Strache's lieutenant, contributes to the interpretation.