Putin accused of plagiarising his PhD thesis
timesonline ^ | March 26, 2006 | Tony Allen-Mills
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.
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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. A copy of the thesis was eventually located in the electronic files of a Moscow technical library.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1603268/posts
OPINION: Well Puti, Puti something to think about.
By the way, did the cold war ever end for you?
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"Mole may have been fed false information"
timesonline.co.uk ^ | March 25, 2006 | Michael Evans
Posted on 03/26/2006 11:26:59 AM PST by Proctor
The Times March 25, 2006