If you lived in Putin’s Russia, what compromises would you make?
Dmitry Muratov, a Moscow newspaper editor, has made his choice. He accepts donations from a business tycoon with Kremlin connections, refuses to publish articles about the personal lives of the Russian elite and has petitioned President Vladimir Putin to help children in need of expensive drugs.
By contrast, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, wrote a letter to his supporters published Wednesday urging them to resist any form of compromise: "We don’t negotiate with terrorists who take hostages.”