Russian President Vladimir Putin has consistently used the courts to neutralize his opponents. Currently, the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, a prominent critic of Putin’s regime, is being prosecuted for allegedly conspiring to embezzle from a state-owned timber firm, while Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after accusing several Russian officials of large-scale embezzlement, is being tried posthumously on conspiracy charges.
这种类型的“伪法治”并非乌克兰所独有。俄罗斯总统普京一直在使用法庭抑制反对者。最近，反腐败活动家、普京政权的著名批评者纳瓦尔尼（Alexei Navalny）因受控密谋盗用某国有木材企业公款而被起诉，与此同时，在起诉多名俄罗斯官员大量盗用公款后死于狱中的律师马格尼茨基（Sergei Magnitsky）在死后被指犯有密谋罪。