…Igor Fedyukin, a rookie official with a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and just eight months’ experience as the [Russian] Deputy Minister of Education and Science… was part of a group of academics who in January exposed the extent of Russia’s plagiarism crisis by reviewing 25 dissertations chosen at random from the prestigious history department of Moscow Pedagogical State University. All but one were at least 50% plagiarized, with some as much as 90% copied from other sources.
February 28th, 2013 at 7:36PM
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February 28th, 2013 at 7:55PM
At this point, it seems as though the only sensible thing to do is to make a presumption of guilt and assume that the Ph.D. dissertation of any European politician is probably bogus – though there are a few outliers, like, say, Gordon Brown, whose work on James Maxton is by all accounts a serious piece of research.