Mar-a-Lago is a luxury Florida country club at which temperatures hovered in the mid-70s on Friday. Russia’s Polar Wolf gulag was a little colder on Friday, hovering around minus-6.

The U.S. federal and state court system is imperfect but is supported by protocols such as discovery rights and a comprehensive appeals process that are designed to provide fair justice. It is far superior to the Russian criminal court system, as the latter is defined by rulings born of rampant corruption and political direction. Alexei Navalny, an investigative journalist and opposition figure, is the tip of a vast largely unseen iceberg of oppression, with only a few others such as American journalist Evan Gershkovich in the public eye.