There are presently 217 Russian diplomats in Switzerland**. By comparison, in Italy - a much larger neighbouring country - there are only 44 of them. As SonntagsZeitung, Christian Dussey, Chief of the national Intelligence Service (Nachrichtendienst des Bundes – NDB – ed.) wrote, he believes that **every 3rd of these diplomatic representatives performs tasks to the SWR, FSB and GRU**. The situation became so dangerous that the home of Higher Swiss Parliament (Canton Council – ed.) in late May supported the request of the abroad Policy Committee to "systematically expel Russian spies and another abroad spies" by 32 votes in favour and 9 against.