Nah, Germany is close to invading the Swiss for their banks ignoring tax laws in Germany. It should have been in the news that Germany is buying near a dozen illegal (in Swiss) tax data CD's with data on German high profile tax-evaders. They nearly got our "paid" shill in Government to sign a tax amnesty but thankfully our regional govs are boycotting it, bit simply buying more tax data cd's which obviously is a good thing if you want to prevent a treaty that makes this illegal. The Swiss will not sign it now. ;p I think at some point, Swiss banks will lose their license EU wide if they continue to piss us off by protecting tax evaders, particularly as its the upper 1%, and even our politicians have noticed that you win elections by actually punishing the upper 1% (our elections are not easily bought ;p). It will just take 2 or 3 more years of crisis and the Swiss would have wished they never had helped anyone evade German taxes.
So you see. It's hard to have a better friend than Russia. Russia would never help anyone evade taxes in Germany. hehe