Russian opposition leader, a Putin critic shot dead

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Ostensibly, the Swiss government would know if he was in Switzerland, otherwise the Italians would know. I wonder how they do border crossings on the lake.
 
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It's all Schengen now - no border crossings.
I don't think it would be difficult for Vladimir Putin to enter Switzerland incognito. Especially with Swiss privacy laws being what they are.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
something has to leak

And, as I said, it's in the Swiss media.
 
I can just imagine that EU tabloid paparazzi swarming Lugano.

I once had trouble getting into France and Spain, even though in theory they were in the Schengen agreement. As an Australian, Germany didn't require a visa, while France and Spain did. I was detained until I obtained a visa at immigration office. In Spain, my passport and plane tickets were confiscated, while I was in the country, and I could only get my passport back by presenting a boarding pass. I was on Iberia for the return trip, but then the one of the unions went on strike, so the flight was suspended. I had to get Iberia to transfer me to KLM. I wasn't sure if I could leave Spain on time.
 
Czcibor said:
Report on which Nemtsov was working before some "green men" shot him - published:
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Soon to come then, a big spin campaign on the Russians-in-Ukraine report from the Russian Il Duce and company. In returning to the methods of the earlier 20th century, Putin might yet suffer its consequences, e.g. hanging by his heals at a gas station.
 
mheslep said:
Soon to come then, a big spin campaign on the Russians-in-Ukraine report from the Russian Il Duce and company. In returning to the methods of the earlier 20th century, Putin might yet suffer its consequences, e.g. hanging by his heals at a gas station.
At a gas station? Not narrow enough, in Poland we perceive whole Russia just as one big heavily armed gas station, that pretends being a country ;)

And more seriously - so far Russia is on the high thanks to mixture of reduced vodka price and nationalism. Economy seems to stabilize, so... don't look so. Of course we may say that in 1914 there was very high support for the Tsar...

Anyway, I found a better article about Nemtsov and his research:
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...ndreds-of-russian-dead-in-ukraine/520628.html
 
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