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Vladimir Putin, plagiarist

Wednesday August 20, 2008

Categories: Russia

Talk over at Andrew's place about Vladimir Putin's grad school thesis on (see here and here). It had to do with the strategic use of Russia's mineral resources. But three years ago, Brookings scholars discovered that much of it was plagiarized. Ah, spies.

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masha
August 21, 2008 6:07 AM

Yes, spies are everywhere. We found a pile of American books at our dacha, between old papers. Was it a parcel from Wendell Berry or russian spies robbed library in Kentucky, noone knows:
picasaweb.google.com/5051914m/cPBwDB
Perhaps it will be interesting to some Americans from historical point of view, the books were all published in 1941-1942. For me it is interesting, later will upload more.

Scott Lahti
August 21, 2008 11:08 AM

What - the Russian leader's taken up boxing, now?

What? Oh, *plagiarist*!

Never mind.

Note to self: only read Rod sober from now on.

anishnaube
August 21, 2008 9:56 PM

A grad school thesis was plagarized. This is certainly man bites dog news.

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