Cluster: Swiss Identity

Maurer: Sochi Games boycott ‘would be mean’

This content was published on Dec 22, 2013 Maurer told the SonntagsBlick newspaper that there are better places on the world stage to criticise Russia, for example within the United Nations. However, he said, boycotting their Olympics “would be mean”. The current Swiss head of state, who will hand over the reins to incoming president Didier Burkhalter on January 1, will attend the…

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‘When you look at the mould it’s very beautiful’

This content was published on Dec 22, 2013 It is with her medical hat that Kähler, 65, meets me in her offices in Wil, near St Gallen. After practising psychiatry as well as naturotherapy for 40 years, she now devotes two days a week to another medical occupation: therapy with leeches. She and her husband own Switzerland’s only leech breeding company for medical…

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Revamped Olympic Museum sets Sochi in motion

This content was published on Dec 21, 2013 Although it calls itself a museum, the stunning building on the shores of Lake Geneva has been revamped into what could best be described as a temple in honour of the Olympics, modelled by a digital Disneyland. Built in 1992, the museum originally contained a chronological tribute to the history of the Olympic Games. Following…

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Nativity scenes become increasingly elaborate

This content was published on Dec 21, 2013 Nativity scenes draw their inspiration from the Gospel of Luke, which relates the story of Jesus’s birth in a Bethlehem stable. This Catholic Christmas tradition is usually ascribed to St Francis of Assisi. Over the centuries, the nativity scene – also known as crèche or crib – has become increasingly elaborate, making its way from…

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Daily life in a Bulgarian refugee camp

This content was published on Dec 20, 2013

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Women hit by wage gap from day one

This content was published on Dec 18, 2013 As part of a national research programme, 6,000 young adults were followed in their transition from school to the working world, starting in the year 2000. The entry level-salaries of the women were then compared to those of the men. “It is the first data we have on the transition from education to employment where…

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Genocide denial case failure dents anti-racism norm

This content was published on Dec 18, 2013 The Strasburg-based court ruled that Switzerland violated the Turkish nationalist Doğu Perinçek’s right to free speech when it fined him for denying the 1915 Armenian genocide in a 2005 speech. Perinçek, who was the head of the left-wing Turkish Workers’ Party, was found guilty of racial discrimination in 2007 after he called the genocide “an…

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Genocide denial penalty violated free speech

This content was published on Dec 17, 2013 Perinçek, who was the head of the left-wing Turkish Workers’ Party, was found guilty of racial discrimination in 2007 after he called the genocide “an international lie” during a public speech in the city of Lausanne. The Armenians say Ottoman Turks slaughtered up to 1.8 million Armenians in a planned genocide between 1915 and 1918.…

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Skier blames pro-German bias for award loss

This content was published on Dec 16, 2013 Gut, currently leading the overall World Cup standings having won four races so far this season, picked up 27.19% of viewers’ votes on Sunday night at the Credit Suisse Sports Awards 2013. This was just behind orienteerer Simone Niggli (27.87%) and gymnast Giulia Steingruber (28.28%), both from the German-speaking part of Switzerland. Steingruber won gold…

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Traditional lake swim entices shivery swimmers

This content was published on Dec 15, 2013 At 6.7 degrees Celsius, the water temperature was considered “very cold”, but not “icy”, said organiser Christophe Jacot. The water temperature was relatively warm compared to 2005, when it dropped to just under 5 degrees. The shivery participants, some dressed in Father Christmas costumes, swam a distance of 120 metres. The event has been going…

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