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At home, however, he is often cast as a Westernizer.

Henceforth and till the 90s he was called a "westernizer in poetry, distant from national traditions".

It is a stylized likeness of the great westernizer as an aging man, seated in a chair.

Russia's greatest Westernizer proved in his writing also to possess a very Russian sense of life.

The shah, a Westernizer who tried to modernize his country at a rapid pace, endorsed the car, calling it a source of national pride.

Thus from its inception the city plunged into the Russian debate between Westernizer and Slavophile.

"He is a modernizer, but I wouldn't call him a Westernizer," Bialer says.

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The Westernizer artist and art historian Alexandre Benois was one such critic.

Mr. Shevardnadze is a Westernizer through and through.

Polls show President Viktor Yuschenko, a determined Westernizer, out of the running.

It was then that Ostrovsky, initially a Westernizer, started to slowly drift towards Slavophilia.

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Pamuk himself, now in his 40's, began as a literary Westernizer, though set against the oppressiveness and corruption of Ataturk's heirs.

They despise Mr. Yeltsin as a "Westernizer" who betrayed Russia's sovereignty.

Ataturk, a committed Westernizer and political visionary, transformed the multinational Ottoman empire into a modern state based on Turkish nationalism.

Mr. Pamuk, a Westernizer and a liberal, believes in a future for Turkey founded on freedom of speech and religion.

But more than that, he was Russia's great Westernizer, the ruler who scoured Europe for the best of its culture and science, then made it Russia's own.

And the career of a tough but promising politician, a Westernizer who wanted to bring Serbia into Europe and not sink back into defensive nationalism, has been cut down.

Mr. Primakov, 66, took over in January as Foreign Minister after Andrei V. Kozyrev, a liberal Westernizer, was fired.

After his Volga trip Ostrovsky lost interest in the "Slavophile or Westernizer" dilemma and started to develop a deeper understanding of the Russian people and Russia.

Although Peter the Great is considered by many to be the first westernizer of Russia, there were, in fact, contacts between the Muscovite nobility and Western Europe before his reign.

In Russia, Bakunin was considered a Westernizer because of his influences that spread the ideology of anarchism outside of his nation to the rest of Europe and Russia.

But it is another question whether that ranks him as a westernizer or a Russian nationalist - or whether these have ever been the relevant categories for judging any Russian leader, Mr. Putin included.

It is a replay of a timeless conflict between reformer and reactionary, innovation and tradition, Westernizer and Slavophile, West and East - except that for 75 years the debate stood frozen by the enforced orthodoxy of Communism.