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It also says something about the contrasting conditions of the West vs Russia. Lavrov, personally formed by the drab and self-consciously proletarian Soviet culture, values good manners and appears courtly and old world, while the Westerners, who glory in the class culture of a credentialled elite that is enamoured of consumerism, come across as coarse and plebeian.

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