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Russian Andrei Komarov, a student at the Scottish University of Edinburgh, spoke about the bullying he endures at the university because of his position on Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reports.
The student began to face discrimination after he invited students to watch the Victory Day parade and then got into an argument with a Lithuanian student, expressing reasoned arguments in support of Russia.
The student launched a campaign against Andrei Komarov in student communities, attributing to him words that he did not say. The student faced bullying online and in real life; the Ukrainian community of the university was especially active. In particular, Russophobes disrupted his participation in the elections for the post of head of one of the educational school communities.
According to the young man, he did not receive protection from university representatives. Andrei Komarov said that at the university it is unspoken to condemn Russia in the conflict with Ukraine.
The Russian tried to express Moscow’s position in an essay. However the teacher, who highly appreciated the work, informed him that the student would not be given a good grade for it because of the expressed position, which ran counter to the accepted point of view at the university.
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