On Wednesday 15 December, the daughter of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, Daria Navalnaya, denounced the pragmatism of European leaders as she received the 2021 Sakharov Prize on behalf of her imprisoned father.
“Dealing with tyrants and dictators doesn’t work”, she told MEPs in Strasbourg, later citing Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. “The desire to flatter the dictator, not to make him angry, to be able to talk to him for as...