The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PUSHKIN
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result PUSHKIN
- Russian writer — sort mostly supporting press
- Encouragement given to People writer
- Writer wants to encourage relations
- Writer’s offensive relations
- Russian poet to practise nepotism?
- Poet will jump the queue, to grab cocktail
- Promote family writer in Russian
- Aggressively encourage family writer
- Writer in Russian press relations
- What a nepotist might do for poet
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