Exiled Russians in Switzerland are protesting the participation of Russian parliamentarians with close ties to Putin at the Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in Geneva. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The prtest was voiced in an open letter to the president of the House of Representatives, the president of the Senate and foreign minister Ignazio Cassis. + Sanctioned Russians in Geneva: who gets in and why "The presence of Putin's elite in the delegation is a snub to the principles of peace, democracy, the rule of law and Switzerland's neutrality," reads the letter from the Russia of the Future - Switzerland association. This "Putin elite" includes Konstantin Kosachev, who systematically promotes propaganda for a war of aggression, Pyotr Tolstoy, who was expelled from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for war rhetoric, and Leonid Sluzki, a supporter of anti-democratic laws, the letter states. + Meet the Russian oligarchs: Switzerland's ...
