History, Weaponry and Tuxedos on Medvedev's Swiss Trip

Swiss President and Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz, right, speaking to President Medvedev during a two-day state visit to Switzerland at the government's guesthouse Lohn in the village of Kehrsatz near the Swiss capital of Bern on Monday.

President Medvedev being welcomed by Swiss Federal President Hans-Rudolf Merz upon his arrival in Zurich, Switzerland, on Monday.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, right, listening to a speech during the unveiling ceremony for a bronze bust of Iaonnis Kapodistrias, in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday. Iaonnis Kapodistrias was a Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire from 1816 to 1822 and later first head of state of independent Greece.

Ruslan Zalikov, left, delegate of the Ministry for Emergency Situations, and Toni Frisch, right, director of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, signing a cooperation agreement at the Bernerhof in Bern, Switzerland, on Monday.

Members of the Association for Threatened Peoples protesting against the human rights situation in Chechnya during a demonstration prior to the visit of President Medvedev in Bern, Switzerland on Monday.

Svetlana Medvedeva, wife of President Dmitry Medvedev, visiting the Bern Zoo in Switzerland on Tuesday. President Medvedev and his wife Svetlana presented Bern's Zoo with two bear cubs, seen in the background.

Roswitha Merz, right, wife of Switzerland's president Hans-Rudolf Merz, and Svetlana Medvedeva, wife of President Medvedev, speaking as they visit the Bern Fine Arts Museum in Bern, Switzerland, on Monday.

President Medvedev, center right, his wife Svetlana, background right, Switzerland's president Hans-Rudolf Merz, left, and his wife Roswitha Merz, background left, attending a gala dinner in Bern, Switzerland, on Monday.

President Medvedev, left, his wife Svetlana Medvedeva, second right, Switzerland's president Hans-Rudolf Merz, right, and his wife Roswitha Merz, second left, attending a dinner party at the Bellevue Hotel in Bern, Switzerland, on Monday.

Prior to a ceremony with President Medvedev, two Russian soldiers standing with flowers on Tuesday in front of a monument dedicated to the Russian general Alexander Suvorov, who in 1799 crossed the Alps from Italy to cut off the advance of Napoleon's troops, near Andermatt, central Switzerland.

Swiss President and Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz, left, and President Medvedev attending a wreath laying ceremony at the Suvorov memorial at Schoellenen canyon near Andermatt in Central Switzerland on Tuesday.

President Medvedev, center left, walking on Tuesday after laying flowers during a ceremony at a monument dedicated to the Russian general Alexander Suvorov, who in 1799 crossed the Alps from Italy to cut off the advance of Napoleon's troops, near Andermatt, central Switzerland.

President Medvedev, left, flanked by his Swiss counterpart Hans-Rudolf Merz, holding a saber lost by Russian general Alexander Suvorov's army in 1799 that the Swiss president gave him as a gift during his visit to the Bundesbriefmuseum, in Schwyz, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

A limousine carrying President Medvedev, seen at rear window, heading on Tuesday over the so called Devil's Bridge and through the Schoellenen Gorge toward Schwyz, after Medvedev laid flowers during a ceremony at a monument dedicated to the Russian general Alexander Suvorov, who in 1799 crossed the Alps from Italy to cut off the advance of Napoleon's troops.