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'Not Australian': Australian university's Russian student boycott draws criticism

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Deakin University announced its policy related to the enrollment of Russian students in March 2022 Source: Moment RF / Kilito Chan/Getty Images

A Russian student against the war in Ukraine says he never expected to be rejected from studying at an Australian university, in what some experts have labelled a “discriminatory” policy that may stifle the hopes of those repressed in Russia



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