[ncountylee]

"Senator Joe Biden has never recovered from allegations that he stole sections of a 1988 speech by Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader "

Run Joe, run.

[jdm]

"The embarrassing revelation that Putin, a former KGB agent, may have cheated and lied about his qualifications follows a long search by US scholars for evidence of the president’s academic prowess."

His whole life is based on cheating and lies. What's a little doctoring on a ph.d thesis?

[Rodney King]

bump

[Tijeras_Slim]

Ripping off American research is a timeless Russian tradition... after all isn't the greatest Russian inventor Regus Patoff?

[george76]

"the issue is not taken especially seriously in Russia, which is second only to China as a producer of pirated copyright goods..."

[strategofr]

"THE career of President Vladimir Putin of Russia was built at least in part on a lie, according to US 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 labelled a plagiarist yesterday after a pair of researchers at the Brookings Institution, a Washington DC think tank, 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."

Actually, in the KGB, a performance like this is considered a plus.

[vertolet]

IMO 5 pages of 218-page thesis do not make all the thesis plagiarism.

Every thesis must have science sources and basis. It's impossible to make a dissertation from zero.