The Difference Between A True Leader And One Who Is Not

The Jerusalem Post has a story about non-Chabad rabbis from the FSU and Eastern Europe meeting with Israel's President, Moshe Katzav:

In a similar context [Rabbi Goldschmidt] noted that Rabbi Avraham Shayevitch, the former Chief Rabbi of the Soviet Union who had shepherded his flock back to some form of identification with Judaism, had paid a heavy price for a letter that he wrote four years ago to President Vladimir Putin requesting that Russia not sell arms to Iran.

Compare that to the behavior of Vladamir Putin's court-rabbi, Chabad's Berel Lazar.