**First off here’s why it’s inane virtue signaling. **
Sanctions are only effective when the person has assets that can be seized in the country giving the sanction. The travel part of the sanction is frivolous because most western countries require a visa for Russians to enter and wouldn’t grant a visa to some random appeals court judge from Russia at the current time anyway, notwithstanding an official sanction on the person. Onlyfans whores aren’t officially sanctioned by the US government but they don’t get granted visas to America so they can’t enter. Most lower middle class to middle class Russians go to Thailand anyway. Europe is where the Putin/Peskov elite types used to go and they’ve already been sanctioned.
Sanctioning a police officer in Vorkuta who probably can’t even find Germany or Britain on a map and has no assets outside Russia is just virtue signaling. You might as well sanction long dead people for burning witches in the early modern era (an actual proposal by the Scottish devolved parliament, the Wallonia devolved parliament, and the Irish government).
**Sanctioning Russian courts for the treatment of Navalny is hilarious and hypocritical for the following reasons. **
Many European countries allow people to be convicted on paperwork of minor crimes without a trial and without any right to cross examine witnesses. In one German case a man was convicted of calling another man an ‘arschloch’ because the supposed victim and some random old woman signed statements saying he did it. If a few people get together and report you to the police in some European countries their statements, so long as they are consistent, can get you convicted of certain minor crimes and fined. How is this any more civilized than Russia? The only country in Europe where all crimes no matter how minor have a right to a trial is Britain but there the minor crimes (called summary offenses and roughly akin to misdemeanors in America) are tried by volunteer magistrates with a 99.8% conviction rate. You could show a magistrate a plane ticket and hotel receipt showing you were in a different country ro the crime and you would be still convicted.
European countries impose significant criminal punishments on political dissidents. Whole political parties are banned in some countries with political ideologies denounced as ‘extremism’ and therefore illegal. In Germany, ethnic nationalism and communism are both formally illegal views to hold. In Britain the Home Secretary can single handedly with a stroke of the pen ban your group and order you to disband. BUT RUSSIA PERSECUTES DISSIDENTS!!!!!!!!111111!!!!!!11111!!!!!111ONE1!!!!!!!!!!111ONE1!!!!!!1111ONE1!!!
Holocaust deniers in Europe are frequently reconvicted of the exact same incident of denying the holocaust even after they’ve already been convicted of the same incident previously. Ursula Haverbeck’s current sentence in Germany is because SOMEBODY ELSE posted a quote from a book she was previously jailed for so it was considered her crime was re-published so she was sent to prison again. If Russia had done that to Navalny (convict him because somebody else posted a quote of his he’d already gone to prison for) Germany would be kvetching and trying the judge in absentia for crimes against democracy.
Navalny would have served a prison sentence in many European countries already. Before he became a normal centrist democrat type, navalny was based as fuck in his youth. He would regularly call for the killing of brown people and gays. It was only after 2018 that Navlany changed and became woke Swedish democrat type. Therefore many European countries would have jailed this guy too before.
Some clarifications.
In Russia you could dispute administrative fine in a court. Mostly it just does not worth time to do that, and unlikely you will get your money back, but some do that, and even sometimes win their cases.
I think even policeman in Vorkuta know where Germany and Britain are. May be he will doubt about some African or Central American country, but Europe is part of our history including WWII which is studied carefully in schools.
Navalny is a unique phenomenon in politics who tried to lean to every single political trend. May be except monarchist. He began from being liberal in Yabloko (Apple) liberal party, then, after courses in Yale he went unhinged. He was liberal, democrat national-bolshevik, communist, nationalist, libertarian, anticorruptionist, internationalist, socialist, traditionalist, wokeist and so on.
Highest approval Navalny got being nationalist and anticorruptionist. Not that people joined him or was ready to vote for nim, but accounted some of his points valid.
Navalny lost all his credibility first when collaborated with Maria Gaidar, daughter of Egor Gaidar - one of the most hated person in Russia who was top economist in Yeltsin government and was the one who create conditions for robbing Russian people of USSR resources and industry.
Second, and final loss of credibility was when Navalny & Co supported coronahoax and vaccinehoax demanding severe lockdowns and mandatory vaccination with punishment for unvaccinated. Top of that insanity was a protest rally in the middle of 2020 where his followers gathered to demand lockdowns, saying Putin killing gramdma by not implementing european type lockdowns. It was so insane - to gather and rally for prohibinting rallies and any gatherings, that even his followers began to flee from Navalny & Co. Final nail in the coffin of Navalny & Co political carreer was hammered after Navalny arrest, when Navalny fellow Volkov in one of their youtube streams declared that Canadian Truckers, who were highly respected even among Navalny followers as a fighters against government tyranny, are a tiny group of far-right extremists and all that stuff. Next Navalny & Co (FBK) youtube stream gathered 10 times less viewers.
not talking about Russia with the fines there. I’m talking about Europe in general. Low level administrative offenses are frequently dealt with only on paperwork in many European countries except Britain but Europeans act like Russia is some kind of unique freak show. Germany is in fact notorious for convicting people of low level crimes and imposing punishments without even ensuring they were served the papers (if you’re charged with an administrative offense in Germany, the witnesses for the prosecution give a statement, you are then mailed the papers in the post and they include a defense sheet. You present your arguments and then a judge rules on it without a hearing unless you raise some serious issue with the charges or claim you’re a retard or something).
I’m aware you can try to challenge fines in Russia but am aware it’s also pointless- I’ve shown you previously that school teacher with the Putin psycho and killer no to war sign. Well, if you search on yandex for MADUMAROV RUSTAM VOITZHONOVITCH judicial decisions yoU can read his appeals. They’re fucking hilarious. He’s not actually a jew he’s some kind of Uzbek/ Ukrainian noviop but his whole appeal is jewish pilpul. He was protesting with his wife and they had the exact same signs but he tries to claim because he was certain meters apart they were separate protests with no coordination. Obviously the judge turns him down.
I’m fully aware of navalny’s constant position hopping but he’s not actually that unique on that count. Populists frequently jump between whatever issues they think are popular. Ron Paul and Boris Johnson were/are both the same. Ron Paul stayed consistently libertarian but how he advertised the ideal society would change dramatically depending on who he was presenting his ideas to. Boris simply chose whichever position he thought would make him popular.
Immaterial to my main point which is that sanctioning some police officer in bum fuck nowhere is pointless virtue signaling because sanctions are supposed to be used to seize assets from influential people who have those assets in other countries or to ban from travel those influential people who might want to spend time on the riviera. Sanctioning a random cop because he was a guard at one of the trials of this corrupt navalny guy is just virtue signaling. He hasn’t got assets to seize and he doesn’t go to the west if he ever does actually go abroad. It’s about as much sense as imposing posthumous sanctions on the guy who wrote The Witches Hammer.
US Britain and America are teaming up with Russia to bomb that patsy once he has ran out of use. The sanction is theater and Navalny is a stooge and chesspiece. If there are anyone who dares stand up against Putin in Russia and that is legit they just vanish and the US will not give a flying fuck about it.
Not mere virtue signaling, but carefully orchestrated plot:
kill Navalny, he had become useless
Use his death to take wind out of sails of Putin interview and try to meddle with Russian Presidential elections
Use his killing as an excuse to "send more money" (i.e. Launder money) to Ukraine
Instill more fear of Russia in sheeps' minds
All working as intended. All according to script.
I don't think CIA/MI6 killed Navalny. I think it was Albert Bourla who killed him.
Navalny was very pro-coronahoax and pro-vaccinehoax. He accuse "bloody Russian tyranny" for too weak and loose lockdowns and mask mandates. Being in "opposition" to "bloody Russian tyranny", guess what vaccine he choose? Right. Most free, civilized and democratic one. His colleagues openly demand Pfizer vaccine be officially approved in Russia. Also, he was in German hospital at the moment when Pfizer was rolled out in Germany. Also, in Russia Pfizer was not sanctioned or prohibited, it just was not officially approved, so anybody who want it could buy and jab himself with Pfizer or Moderna without limitations, so his colleagues could easily buy and give him Pfizer jab in jail. Jail medics will not hesitate to do any COVID jab, they got noticeable bonuses for COVID prevention till the end of 2021.
As for coincidences - shit happens. His colleagues know that he could "die suddenly" any moment, and was prepared beforehand for that with speeches and accusations waiting if he "die suddenly".
Navalny wasn't healthy man, he had morbidities long before he become media darling, and labor in arctic jail could be compared with sportsmen load.
And rumors are that he died suddenly from blood clot, similar to all that poor footbal players, singers, athletes and news hosts you heard a lot about.
So, my guess here - Albert Bourla killed Navalny.