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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't understand what is significant about this.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Classic dictator who claims his country is the best of all somehow has most his family and kids living/getting education abroad in countries the regime classifies as “enemy nations”.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Isn't this the son that nobody even knew existed until a week ago?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Soon, Putin will claim Switzerland is now part of Russia. Get ready for another 3-day military operation.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Russia would literally die. Switzerland is ready, and has been ready for centuries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Also that's where everybody keeps their money so they're going to have things to say about it. With missiles.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Finally, Switzerland’s useless obsession with military spending and forced military service will pay off. 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a neutral nation you need to have some way to ensure that neutrality as there is no NATO or other group of nations to have your back.

Hence the military spending.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Ah yes. I’m very scared of a French/German/Italian/Lichtensteinian Invasion.

It’s totally smart to have obligatory military service in these circumstances, and to force every man to have a gun in his home for defense, and to force every home to build an underground bunker. (Our government is paranoid asf). And the arms industry have strong lobby.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

If a war sparks off (and I really hope it doesn't), at least Sweeden will have their chance to get a Simo of their own.

spoilerBonus song.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The Dossier Center, a website specialised in tracking the criminal activities of people connected to the Kremlin, has confirmed that one of the sons of Russian President Vladimir Putin was born in Switzerland in 2015. The report, published on Wednesday quoting an anonymous source working at Putin’s residence, said his long-term partner, Alina Kabaeva, delivered their first son at a clinic in Lugano, southern Switzerland. 

The Dossier Center reportExternal link also provided rare insights into the living conditions of the couple’s two sons, now aged nine and five, at their residence on Lake Valdai, in central Russia.

Putin divorced his wife Lyudmila in 2013 but has never publicly acknowledged his relationship with Kabaeva, a former gymnast.

Their relationship has drawn a lot of media attention, including speculation on where their sons were born. In a report published in May 2022, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitungconfirmedExternal link that the couple had two sons, with the first one born in Switzerland. This information was never officially confirmed.

In an interview with SWI swissinfo.ch, Sergei Pugachev, a former advisor to Putin, indirectly confirmed the information. “Everyone in Russia knows that Alina Kabaeva is, so to speak, his wife since Putin’s divorce. And it would be normal she gave birth in Switzerland. His eldest children study abroad.”

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