"Give me rent, or I end your life! What decision will you make, huh?" The Russian looked at you with pure determination, knowing that he'd get his rent from you one way or another, either by you giving in or through your mangled corpse. There's not much of a choice to make there. Are you going to fight him or pay him his money? The choice is yours to make.

Fighting him is risky, and if you pay him rent, he'll leave you alone. But you must have all of the rent that he wants. Otherwise, you'll wind up being a corpse. So, knowing you have a choice, what do you choose? More importantly, will you be able to pull this off without dying? It remains to be determined, but you decide to do it.