With gas and oil exports accounting for 30 to 40 percent of Russia's budget, Switzerland's position in this wartime equation cannot be underestimated. This is how Switzerland is helping Russia avoid sanctions.
Putin recently went on record by calling the Ukrainian conflict a "tragedy" and stating that economic sanctions against his nation had "failed." He was not precisely bluffing, it turns out.
Russia's economy has proven difficult to break three months after the most harsh and coor...