Saving Face: Protecting Against H1N1
Russia's fans wearing face masks as preventive measures against the H1N1 flu while watching the 2010 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Slovenia in Moscow, Nov. 14, 2009.
Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
Russia's fans and police wearing face masks as preventive measures against the H1N1 flu as they watch the 2010 World Cup qualifying soccer match in Moscow, Nov. 14, 2009.
Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
A man in a protective face mask passing by an installation by British artist Harland Miller titled "I Was Always Good at Finding Things I" featuring a group of people in Tyvek protective suits taking bacteriological samples in central Kiev, Nov. 13, 2009. The installation is staged by Pinchuk Art Center as a response to the situation developing around the H1N1 flu outbreak in Ukraine.
Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters
A man wearing a protective mask in central Kiev on Nov. 13, 2009.
Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters
A recruit wearing a protective mask looks on at a military garrison in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Nov. 11, 2009.
Ilya Naymushin / Reuters
Supporters of the Fair Russia party rallying in central Moscow on Nov. 11, 2009. Activists denounced high prices on H1N1 virus antiviral drugs and called for guaranteed free H1N1 flu vaccine injections for Russian citizens.
Alexander Natruskin / Reuters
A butcher wearing a protective mask reads a magazine at a market in Kiev Nov. 10, 2009. Ukraine's leader Viktor Yushchenko on Sunday dismissed the idea a January election should be delayed because of flu fears and appeared to accept there would be no more IMF funds forthcoming until after the vote.
Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters
A butcher wearing a protective mask is seen at a market in Kiev Nov. 10, 2009.
Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters
People wearing protective masks as they sit in a subway carriage in Kiev, Nov. 10, 2009.
Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, left, wearing a face mask as she visits a regional hospital in Lutsk, about 400 km (247 miles) west of Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.
Aleksandr Prokopenko / AP / Pool
A woman wearing a protective mask walks past a monument of Mikhail Panikovsky, a character from the Russian novel "Golden Calf", in a protective mask in Kiev, Nov. 9, 2009.
Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters
Members of the feminist group FEMEN demonstrating in underwear made from gauze, which is used in anti-virus masks, at the Independence Square in Kiev, on Nov. 9, 2009, as they perform during a staged protest against what their call a public stress brought on by the spread of swine flu in Ukraine.
Sergei Chuzavkov / AP
Students with protective masks attending a lecture at a university in the southern city of Stavropol on Nov. 9, 2009.
Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters
A supporter of presidential candidate and Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko distributing protective masks in the center of Kiev, Nov. 9, 2009.
Gleb Garanich / Reuters
Moldovan women wearing surgical masks talk to one another at an intersection in Chisinau, Moldova, on Nov. 9, 2009. Only a few hundred cases of the H1N1 virus have been reported in Moldova, but because of the outbreak in neighboring Ukraine, thousands of residents in Moldova are taking whatever precautions they can against the disease.
John McConnico / AP
A woman wearing a face mask as she walks past a billboard on Novy Arbat, Moscow.
Vladimir Filonov / MT
A nurse holding a swine flu vaccination in a syringe in a Moscow clinic, Nov. 9.
Vladimir Filonov / MT
Pro-Kremlin activists wearing face masks at a rally on Triumfalnaya Ploshchad Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2009, to celebrate People's Unity Day.
Vladimir Filonov / MT
A boy wearing a face mask on the metro as he reads a book, Oct. 29, Moscow.
Igor Tabakov / MT
