"Not only being a living #Russian means guilt in #Italy today. But also being a dead Russian, who was sentenced to death when he was alive in 1849 because he had read a forbidden thing is. That an #Italian #university prohibits a course on an author like #Dostoevskij is something I can’t believe."

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"In these days we should talk more about Dostoevskij, not less."

--Paolo #Nori

https://www.breakinglatest.news/world/bicocca-university-cancels-paolo-noris-course-on-dostoevsky-lets-avoid-controversy-the-writer-in-tears-its-censorship-ridiculous/

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Due to massive students' protest and very high media attention in #Italy, #University of #Milan - #Bicocca now seems to backpedal and might finally allow Paolo #Nori to hold his lectures on #Dostoevskij.

https://www.mic.com/culture/dostoevsky-banned-russia-ukraine

https://www.ilvaloreitaliano.it/bicocca-sospende-corso-di-paolo-nori-su-dostoevsky-poi-fa-retromarcia/

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Paolo #Nori will not hold his lectures on #Dostoevskij, since the #University of #Milan #Bicocca demanded that the course must be "restructured" and #PaoloNori would have to teach also about writers from #Ukraine to "warrant an equilibrium". Nori declined:

"I don't agree that if you talk about a #Russian author, you have to talk about an Ukrainian one, too. Besides, I don't know any Ukrainian writers."

https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/22_marzo_02/universita-bicocca-cancella-corso-paolo-nori-dostoevskij-evitiamo-polemiche-scrittore-ridicola-censura-ed50ea60-99f3-11ec-a66e-5cad27f47546.shtml

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