YesSwitzerland is part of the Schengen Area.
Refer to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement This provides the answer!
There is not telling when a Visa is to be approved by the EU immigration. It is better to apply in advance so that if there are issues, youc an address them promptly without affecting your travel plans.
Yes Bulgaria just approved this. But not all the schengan countries are officially informed of this. So you will have a hard time to convince them.
26 members : Austria,Belgium,Czech Republic,Denmark,Estonia,Finland,France,Germany,Greece,Hungary,Iceland,Italy,Latvia,LiechtensteinLithuania,Luxembourg,Malta,Netherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Slovakia,Slovenia Spain,Sweden,Switzerland.
A Russian citizen must contact the French consulate in Russia to get a French tourist visa. You must go through the application process and pay all necessary fees. Then you must wait for the visa to be approved before you can travel.
The Schengen Visa is a visa for business and tourists for Europe. The visa allows non-Schengan residents to travel through the 24 European countries on one visa. To purchase, one must determine the embassy closest to them that may grant the visa, arrive in person with appropriate documents needed for application and also cash for the application fee. This fee and needed documents may vary depending on your embassy so make sure you do a thorough search.