Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza are rare, indispensable and of unfailing courage. These are three reasons why statesmen, citizens, artists, trade unions, churches and intellectuals must do everything in their power to prevent these men from dying in prison.
These men are rare because so many of those well-qualified to take up positions of high responsibility in Russia have been killed or crushed to such an extent that they are among the last. Fortunately, they are not the only ones capable of representing and leading the post-Putin Russia of tomorrow. Others still unknown may also be able to do so; but none of them have the fame and the experience that Navalny and Kara-Murza have acquired in some 15 years of bringing the opposition together, defending the law and denouncing corruption.
