Posted on 03/27/2006 5:48:45 AM PST by Mazepa
Large parts of an economics thesis written by President Vladimir Putin in the mid-1990s were lifted straight out of a U.S. management textbook published 20 years earlier, The Washington Times reported Saturday, citing researchers at the Brookings Institution.
It was unclear, however, whether Putin had even read the thesis, which might have been intended to impress the Western investors who were flooding into St. Petersburg in the mid-1990s, the report said. Putin oversaw the city's foreign economic relations at the time.
Clifford Gaddy, a senior fellow at Brookings, said 16 of the 20 pages that open the thesis' key second section were taken from the Russian translation of the 1978 book "Strategic Planning and Policy" by University of Pittsburgh professors William King and David Cleland, the newspaper reported.
In addition, six diagrams and tables from the 218-page thesis also mimicked those in the book, which had been translated into Russian by a KGB-related institute in the early 1990s. "It all boils down to plagiarism," The Washington Times reported Gaddy as saying. "Whether you're talking about a college-level term paper, not to mention a formal dissertation, there's no question in my mind that this would be plagiarism."
Calls to the presidential administration went unanswered Sunday.
The official Kremlin biography says Putin obtained a Ph.D. in economics in 1997 from the St. Petersburg Mining Institute. It is unclear when Putin wrote the thesis, which Putin scholars have tried for years to examine and Brookings obtained by subscribing to a Moscow technical library that had a copy in its electronic files. ....
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So does this put Putin in the same league of heroes as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joe Biden?
People are always fascinated when a political leader is found to be a plariarist, but what about a famous best-selling religios leader who does the same thing? Compare the writings and charts by Rick Warren to those of Carl Jung.
No wonder the NYT loves Pootie.
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Then wasn't he using awfully old writing in support of his economics thesis? Woudn't he prefer newer thoughts and theories?
"Then wasn't he using awfully old writing in support of his economics thesis? Woudn't he prefer newer thoughts and theories?"
I imagine it would be better to pick something old, something translated from another language, because people would be less likely to recognize it as something they had seen elsewhere
Well, yes. I was just thinking that a thesis advisor or committee would question old thinking. You would think that it would be somewhat obvious.
Putin was a top KGB official: what thesis advisor would question him?
And BTW, "old" doesn't mean invalid in economics as in real sciences.
See for example Adam Smith.
What does that have to do with an atheist commie cheating on his thesis - the subject of this thread? Is that an "everybody does it" point you are making?
On the contrary, not "everyone does it" but some people tend to overlook those that serve their purpose. A lie is a lie, no matter who writes it.
Sounds like you are the bitter one, namecalling and all. The blacks and politicians accept that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s plagiarism was acceptable, the Democrats accept that Joe Biden's plagiarism was acceptable, and the people at Zondervan and Rick Warren followers accept his plagiarism.
They are still plagiarists, but accepted when they serve a purpose or make profits.
I imagine that the commies think Putin's plagarism is okay, too. None if it is okay in reality.
Where did I name call you? I said you sounded bitter about something and were talking from that problem rather than addressing the thread. Let go of the reality that followers of people often do not see their faults. That is the way it is.
That is part of the problem. I refuse to accept the notion that anything is okay when "everyone does it". It is a fraud on society, and usually for monetary gain by the perpetrator. It is wrong, and I will continue to point it out whenever I see it.
What would you expect from a KGB agent?
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