Saturday, March 25, 2006
Apparently, so...
Researchers peg Putin as a plagiarist over thesis
Vladimir Putin -- KGB spy, politician, Russian Federation president, 2006 host of the Group of Eight international summit -- can add a new line to his resume: plagiarist.
Large chunks of Mr. Putin's mid-1990s economics dissertation on planning in the natural resources sector were lifted straight out of a management text published by two University of Pittsburgh academics nearly 20 years earlier, Washington researchers insisted yesterday...
I suppose it's not as bad as Abu Mazen's Soviet-granted thesis denying the Holocaust, but still, it must be embarrassing for him.