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Put pressure on relations of Russian poet (7)

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pushkin

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'russian poet' is the definition.
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'put pressure on relations' is the wordplay.
'put pressure on' becomes 'push' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'relations' becomes 'kin' (I've seen this before).
'push'+'kin'='PUSHKIN'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for pushkin that I've seen before include "As writer" , "Russian poet, author and dramatist" , "Boris Godunov poet" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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