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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/03/09/what-you-didnt-know-russian-president-putin/408913002/Russian President Putin: Former KGB with economics degree
Oren Dorell, USA TODAY
Published 2:55 p.m. ET March 9, 2018 | Updated 4:50 p.m. ET July 19, 2018
Putins dissertation included 'extensive plagiarism'
Putin in 1996 earned a post-graduate degree that is a rough equivalent of a Ph.D. at the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, though he never attended that school, according to a 2006 presentation by analysts Igor Danchenko and Clifford Gaddy at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C.
His dissertation was on the investment in large-scale natural resource extraction, like oil and gas, to restore Russias great power status. Pages of it were largely copied from a 1982 American business school text book called Strategic Planning and Policy, Gaddy said.
catbyte
(34,453 posts)Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Snort.
erronis
(15,335 posts)Also wonder if Melanie isn't working on a plagiarized version of "Becoming" by Michelle.
3Hotdogs
(12,408 posts)FakeNoose
(32,763 posts)Why waste time on plagiarizing dissertations when you can be stealing $ billions instead?
pecosbob
(7,543 posts)in false flag operations disguised as terrorist acts designed to consolidate and maintain his power.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)The doctorate degree wasn't linked to your academic work.
For example, look at Angela Merkel's doctorate thesis: Sloppily written, primitive and already dramatically out of date the day it was handed in.
The doctorate degree was your reward for your years of work for the communist party, for your loyalty... and sometimes for your bribery. The written thesis was only a meaningless stage-prop you hand in because it must be handed in by tradition.
For example: The wive of the romanian dictator, a high-school dropout, somehow got a doctorate degree in chemistry.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)bitterross
(4,066 posts)We long suspected it. She's just not bright enough to plagiarize something in a different language that the press might not find so easily.
Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Buy him a penthouse !!