[ilSignorCarlo]

no, sorry, it's not like that. Paolo Nori, the writer who was supposed to hold the course, is a well known and loved writer in Italy. Besides being an expert on Russian literature, he's also funny and his lessons are special because he's doing them. The same course on Dostoevsky by any other professor wouldn't have gotten the same attention and interest

[hirako2000]

He meant they could have hired other experts to cover the Ukrainian course part. and kept Paolo for the Russian expertise part of the course. the university clearly wasn't interested in getting attention on what he had to say. precisely because what he had to say would gather much attention.