nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220819-181845-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220819s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220819-181845-0 doi eng 342 23 Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9266-1188 Putinism is Contagious - Blanket Visa Bans on Russian Citizens and the Rule of Law Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Verfassungsblog 2022-08-19 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier As Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine continues, EU Member States are contemplating new sanctions, including Schengen visa bans for Russian citizens. The underlying rationale is the WWI ‘enemy alien’ logic, where all Russian civilians are enemy aliens, and must be treated with suspicion. This populist construction of an ‘enemy alien’ is antithetical to the EU’s constitutional core, which also informs its visa and migration law. The populist retributive logic, to us, is a stress-test of the rule of law in the EU. It’s good news that, outside Estonia and Latvia, it seems to be holding strong in other Member States. CC BY-SA 4.0 Citizenship Rule of Law Russia Russian War against Ukraine Schengen Schengen acquis Roy, Suryapratim Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-1999-225X Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/putinism-is-contagious/ raw object