Last week, Gennady Onishchenko, Russia’s Nosferatu-like chief medical officer, called for the Russian regions to consider restricting children’s travel to the UK in order to prevent the spreading of swine flu. On Wednesday Moscow followed the Sverdlovsk Region in actually banning groups of children from visiting Britain. But the “cordon sanitare” imposed by the authorities has drawn criticism from the tourism industry, which calls it an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of movement. And it probably will not prevent the spread of the disease anyway.
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