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Today's Fun Fact: Putin got a Ph.D. by copying an American textbook [View all]
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
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Putin’s 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 Russia’s great power status.” Pages of it were largely copied from a 1982 American business school text book called Strategic Planning and Policy, Gaddy said.
Putin’s 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 Russia’s great power status.” Pages of it were largely copied from a 1982 American business school text book called Strategic Planning and Policy, Gaddy said.
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