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Swiss Siberia

There’s been plenty of fresh snowfall and below freezing temperatures in Switzerland this winter. But there’s one country of the Swiss countryside that is colder than anywhere else, La Brévine (BREH-VIN-E), a village in the Jura hills. As Swiss Radio International’s Dale Bechtel reports, it’s also better known as the Swiss Siberia

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