Russia’s Putin Accused of Plagiarism

[kpete]

Russia’s Putin Accused of Plagiarizing His Thesis
Created: 26.03.2006 14:35 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:45 MSK, 7 hours 19 minutes ago

MosNews
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The career of President Vladimir Putin of Russia was built at least in part on a lie, according to U.S. researchers. A new study of an economics thesis written by Putin in the mid-1990s has revealed that large chunks of it were copied from an American text.

Putin was labeled a plagiarist Saturday after a pair of researchers at the Brookings Institution established that the Russian president’s academic credentials were based on a dissertation he had lifted in part verbatim from the Russian translation of a management study written by two professors at the University of Pittsburgh in 1978.

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According to Clifford G Gaddy, a senior fellow at Brookings, 16 of the 20 pages that open a key section of Putin’s work were copied either word for word or with minute alterations from a management study, Strategic Planning and Policy, written by US professors William King and David Cleland. The study was translated into Russian by a KGB-related institute in the early 1990s.

The Washington Times reported Saturday that six diagrams and tables from the 218-page thesis also appeared to “mimic” similar charts in the U.S. work. The newspaper quoted Gaddy as saying: “There’s no question in my mind that this would be plagiarism.”

[Boojatta]

1. For the sake of dissidents, maybe it was a good thing that a KGB agent

was not capable of original thought.

[hedgehog]

2. Like what does it matter when you're the head of Russia?

[malaise]

3. Well this is one more disgrace

but not a surprise. The bigger issue is that Russia is standing up to the boys so Putin must go. Let teh demonizing begin.

I'd rather support those who plagarize than those who sanction murder and at least Putin did not support the invasion of Iraq. Most of the current world leaders are criminals. We just need to resolve the degree of criminality.

[patdem]

4. Well, to hire a plagirist to be a journalis it like hiring a pedophile to

babysit, this is more like hiring a cat burgler to work at McDonalds. It matters not!