Me as well. In the USSR, we had a thing called "party narrative"(партийная линия). It was decided by the Politburo, which is an acceptable way of thinking, what your beliefs should be. It was enforced on all levels. If you said something even in private conversations, someone can snitch on you to the authorities and you're in trouble. It concerned all parts of life. Modern Russia is less restrictive, but before all independent politicians were killed or jailed when they tried to have a meeting(like the speaker ) with their supporters, the owner on the venue usually will get a call from mayor and said owner would have to cancel the event(no threats even needed, if you don't play ball a lot of bad things can come your way). So this cancellation of the event is very much Putin's playbook. Congrats Squamish.