Swiss Identity

Top show jumpers in Zurich for CSI

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 Swiss riders taking part include Marcus Fuchs, Willi Melliger and Beat Mändli, who won the silver medal in the team event at last summer’s Sydney Olympics. Among the foreign competitors are Germany’s Ludger Beerbaum, Brazil’s Rodrigo Pessoa, and the Olympic champion, Jeroen Dubbledam of the Netherlands. “The CSI started as a very small tournament 14…

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Rosset pulls out of Milan Indoors

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 Rosset retired after losing the first set 6-3, and the first game of the second set. During the first set, Rosset received attention from his trainer for back trouble before continuing. But the tall Swiss had difficulty in serving and his movement was restricted. Rusedski now goes through to the quarter-finals of the tournament to…

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Prominent Swiss asked Clinton to pardon indicted billionaire

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 The six Swiss wrote letters to Clinton in support of Rich, describing him “an honest, upright citizen”. Among them are the mayor of Zurich, Josef Estermann and a member of the Executive Board of UBS, Pierre de Weck. Rich has been living in Switzerland since he fled the US to escape 50 indictments for fraud,…

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Meningitis scare leads to massive vaccination programme in Gruyère

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 This is the first such mass vaccination campaign in Switzerland against meningitis, and is a sign of the growing concern surrounding the unusually high incidence of the disease in the region. “It is a worrying situation which calls for extra vigilance,” the chief cantonal medical officer, Georges Demierre, told swissinfo. “We’ve a long way to…

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Heuberger continues Swiss tennis winning streak

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 Heuberger defeated Slava Dosedel from the Czech Republic in straight sets. He easily won the first set 6-2, but had to work hard to take the second which went to tie break, 7-6. Marc Rosset and Roger Federer also won their first matches at the Milan Indoors. Basel’s Federer defeated Germany’s Rainer Schüttler in the…

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Jawlensky’s “Swiss” works on display at Lausanne’s Hermitage

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 Most art critics agree that the time Jawlensky spent in Switzerland played a vital role in shaping his art, yet this is the first major exhibition devoted to this period. The artist fled to Switzerland at the outbreak of the First World War. Along with his friend Wassily Kandinsky, he had become one of the…

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Swiss brace for Russian pressure over Borodin extradition

This content was published on Feb 1, 2001 But the Geneva prosecutor handling the case, Bernard Bertossa, says he is confident Borodin will still be extradited to Switzerland. Borodin was arrested in New York on January 17 under an international arrest warrant issue by magistrates in Geneva. He is accused of laundering $25 million (SFr41 million) allegedly received from two Swiss firms in…

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Flu fever tightens its grip

This content was published on Jan 31, 2001 For the first time this year, the number of people seeking medical advise for the flu rose in all cantons, according to Werner Wunderli, who is the head of the national influenza centre in Geneva. The cantons of Ticino and Graubünden were particularly hard hit by the epidemic as nearly six per cent of all…

Record-breaking da Vinci exhibition ends

This content was published on Jan 31, 2001 Zurich was the last stop of a world tour of “Leonardo da Vinci”. One of the exhibition’s organisers, Bernard Schüle, told swissinfo he had expected a total of about 80,000 visitors, in line with attendance figures for previous high-profile exhibitions. “We were very surprised,” he added. “I believe the high level of public interest was…

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Government endorses plan to ease citizenship laws

This content was published on Jan 31, 2001 The government came out in support of revising the citizenship on Wednesday following recommendations by the Federal Commission for Foreigners. The justice minister, Ruth Metzler, said that, under the proposed new legislation, the children of immigrants born in Switzerland would receive Swiss citizenship automatically. She said the process of becoming a citizen would also be…

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