An Italian university reversed course on a decision to postpone a course on 19-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week. Paoli Nori, a writer who had been asked by the University of Milano-Bicocca to voluntarily teach a four-session course on the author, took to Instagram in an emotional video after he was told in an email that his classes had been postponed. “Dear Professor, the Vice Rector for Didactics has informed me of a decision taken with the rector to postpone the course on Dostoevsky,” the email from university officials read, according to the Italian writer’s Instagram video, according to a translation by Newsweek. The university allegedly told Nori on March 2 that they chose to postpone his course “to avoid any controversy, especially internally, during a time of strong tensions,” referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion against Ukraine, which began on Feb. …