The fired man says

Russian historian and political scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences Valery Garbuzov was fired from his post as director of the Institute on the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Why?

Just previously, he wrote a long article in which he described in detail the absurdity of state propaganda, condemned anti-Western rhetoric and indicated Russia’s real place in the world: 

According to Garbuzov thus, today there are only two informal empires on the planet - the USA and China. Russia is a former empire, the heir to the Soviet superpower, "experiencing an extremely painful syndrome of suddenly lost imperial greatness."

"The fact that Russia today exhibits a pronounced post-imperial syndrome is more a tragic pattern than a historical anomaly", 

Garbuzov wrote.

Then.

"Its peculiarity is that it did not appear immediately after the collapse of the USSR in 1991, but made itself felt much later, with Putin coming to power. More than 30 years later, the delayed syndrome, the possible occurrence of which was not previously given much importance, has acquired a threatening character..."

Some say that in a society that truly values education and scholarship, this sort of free thinking and introspection would not be viewed as a threat, but appreciated as a helpful warning to heed.