Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University wants to employ Russian historian Andrey Zubov, who has been threatened with dismissal for his heavy criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy towards Ukraine.

Zubov, a professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, published an article in the leading local business daily newspaper Vedomosti on March 1 and compared Putin’s actions in Crimea with Adolf Hitler’s in Austria in 1938.