Chronicles of cancelling - Washington, D.C.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/19/georgetown-invited-navalnys-kid-to-commencement-chaos-followed-00097954

A chorus of students at Georgetown University’s foreign service school are lashing out at the administration over a controversial choice of speaker for Saturday’s commencement — the daughter of an imprisoned Russian opposition leader.

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With the ongoing war in Ukraine and Wall Street Journalist Evan Gershkovich’s recent imprisonment in Russia, Navalnaya — a 22-year-old junior psychology major at Stanford — seemed to the school to be a fitting choice to underscore free speech while pushing back against the Kremlin’s behavior.

That’s not how a number of Ukrainian and Georgian students saw it.