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‘Mikhail Lotman, an Italian scholar of Russian origin, wrote in a public letter that awarding an honorary fellowship to [Vladimir] Medinsky is like “awarding Mr. Berlusconi for his contribution to the education of female minors.”’

Putin’s culture hack gets a big prize from an Italian university, reports Maria Lipman in The New Republic. So much disgust ensues that the vice rector responsible for granting the prize has resigned.

Margaret Soltan, May 24, 2014 2:53PM
Posted in: foreign universities

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