What Putin is proposing—the choice between Putin and Zyuganov—is not a choice.
There is no choice between unfreedom and unfreedom.
What the democratic opposition is offering, organizing a march with the Black Hundreds and Red extremists: “Either together or not at all” is also not a choice.
Or the same choice between Putin and Zyuganov.
What began at Chistye Prudy may end on Bolotnaya, perhaps without even beginning.
Having organized a rally against Sakharov on February 4, I offered a choice between “Putin, Zyuganov, Mironov, Prokhorov, Zhirinovsky” and Freedom.
There is always a choice.
On February 4 it will be a choice between Sakharov and Bolotnaya.
Like any REAL CHOICE, it will be hard.