Don’t ban Russians from tourist visas
A Washington Post interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which he said Russians should have the borders to Europe closed for them, “because they are taking away someone else’s land”, has triggered demands for Russians to be banned from Schengen tourist visas. Zelenskyy’s call was echoed most forcefully by Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who tweeted that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right”. Such a ban on Schengen visas has far more worrying consequences, as sociologist Jeremy Morris has detailed quite usefully in a blog post . For a start, the asylum application process in...