How many traitors are dying right now a slow miserable death in some siberian gulag?
The GULAG system was shut down by Nikita Khrushchev in 1960. There are no GULAGs in Russia now for 64 years.
totally deserved his death by lethal injection or fall out of window anyhow, no?
A dozen people perhaps, in as many years?
Name me one that did not deserve it? Skripal and Litvinenko were agents of Russian state security, that decided they want to live in London and make money writing books about Russian secrets.
The helicopter pilot in Spain that killed his fellow servicemen, and "donated" his aircraft to the Ukrainians?
A Chechen murderer, that managed to get refugee status in Sweden?
Which of these pieces of sh*t deserved to live?
The only real example is Navalny - and he was a man that challenged the old man himself for the top position. So, unless you are bidding for the throne, or you are a traitor - there is nothing to fear.