Say what you like about the Russians, but while it would be a tough call as to who was their greatest living public intellectual, we all know who and what it is not.
It is not a gameshow host, an occasional actor, and a long-lapsed comedian, who published a couple of exceptionally bad taste, essentially child-pornographic novels a generation or so ago.
Russia, for all its woes, is beginning to look like the last outpost of European civilisation.
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