**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.