Putin 'copied uni thesis' (Brookings Inst says he plagerized)

[Rose Siding]

By Tony Allen-Mills
March 27, 2006
THE career of Russian President Vladimir Putin was built at least in part on a lie, according to US researchers.

A new study of an economics thesis written by Mr Putin in the mid-1990s has revealed that large chunks of it were copied from an American text.
Mr Putin was labelled a plagiarist at the weekend after a pair of researchers at the Brookings Institution, a Washington DC think tank, established that the 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.

According to the Kremlin's official biography, Mr Putin, 53, obtained a PhD in economics from the St Petersburg Mining Institute in 1997. But the US researchers also established that his thesis was for a lesser degree that would not have entitled him to a full doctorate.

The embarrassing revelation that the 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 found in the electronic files of a Moscow technical library.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18612652-401,00.html?from=rss

[Bozita]

1. You'd think Bush wouldda spotted it when he looked into Putin's soul

Maybe Frist shouldda helped.

[Drum]

19. LOL!!!

excellent reply!

[Minnesota Libra]

2. Am I the only one who notices a sudden rise in anti Russia everything? nt

[countingbluecars]

3. I was going to ask the same.

Are the republicans longing for a new cold war?

[Rose Siding]

6. Not to mention an abundance of plagerism

Bush MUST have plagerized SOMETHING. We're not looking hard enough! :rofl:

Really though, my first thought was that this was retaliation for the report about Russia having aided Iraq. Imagine all the US spies that yearn for the known knowns of the cold war.

[ConcernedCanuk]

15. "Bush MUST have plagiarized SOMETHING" - maybe y'all should

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study the text of "My Pet Goat" ??

But to be sure, read it upside down as well . . .

[NYC Liberal]

23. No, Bush didn't plagerize anything --

NOBODY but Bush and his gang could have possibly imagined the stupid shit they've come up with! ;)

[WhiteTara]

25. besides, he can't write n/t

[NYC Liberal]

26. And hell, he can barely speak. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

24. I'm waiting to see if Bolton's nobel peace prize nomination was based

on Valerie Plame's work in Iran. It really wouldn't surprise me if it turns out so.

[Orangepeel]

27. Nah. He paid enough for his college papers to ensure they were originals

[MADem]

8. They're pissed, because it was discovered recently that the Russkies

got ahold of the plans for the 'shock and awe' strut to Baghdad, and passed it on to Saddam's boyz. Now they think that's why the entire Iraqi Army, plus the Republican Guard, just melted away.

This is payback....you'd think someone would have figured this out beforehand. Isn't there a single asshole on a single, solitary Russia Desk in any of our state or intel agencies who is reading this shit? Ya mean NO ONE bothered to give the clown's thesis a once-over??? Ever?? Please!!! Hell, that's what those guys DO for a living!!

Come on!

[HuffleClaw]

9. the price for the russians (and the chinese btw) refusing to play

bush's games at the UN. many predicted exactly this sort of crap.

[Tempest]

10. It's to pressure Russia to Support Bush on Iran

Just like the bogus story on Russia giving Saddam U.S. war plans for Iraq.

[0007]

17. I think.....I think....I hear the propaganda machine cranking up

[daleo]

4. I don't know - Washington Times?

"The Washington Times reported that six diagrams and tables from the 218-page thesis also appeared to "mimic" similar charts in the US work."

There seems to be a bit of a campaign to discredit the Russians right now in the U.S. - probably because they aren't going along with U.S. plans for Iran.

Has anyone seen Bush's thesis from Harvard Business School? That would be interesting.

Or how about Blair's plagiarized justification for war - the dodgey document, I think they called it, that lifted sections of some grad student's MA thesis off the internet and passed it off as confidential intelligence work?

[niyad]

5. interesting that this would come to light right after we get the news abou

russia helping iraq, hmmmmmm?
and, just as a matter of curiousity, why does it matter to US whether he plagiarized or not? after all, the chimperor probably had someone taking his tests for him, and that is not being brought to light.

[Tempest]

11. I doubt anyone in Russia cares

Except for the anti-Putin forces.

[HuffleClaw]

7. another smear story right on cue

next they'll be having him on the grassy knole. what a joke.

[Tempest]

12. My prediction is that they'll tie Putin to Oklahoma City

And 9/11.

[Minnesota Libra]

13. That would actually be funny if it wasn't so sad and........

.....such a real possibility for the Bush idiots.:smoke:

[tinymontgomery]

14. Lets see

"former KGB agent may have cheated and lied" isn't that what spy's and clandestine people do?

[Demeter]

16. Who Gives A Care?

If we can't get rid of Dubya, who isn't even smart enough to plagiarize, why worry about Putin? Let the Russians deal with him.

[tanyev]

18. Hey, maybe he can blog for the Washington Post.

[bemildred]

20. Well, thank God they discovered this in time.

Economics is saved, and no doubt other cheaters will think twice for this example of retribution.

[VegasWolf]

21. As opposed to AWOL who has zero academic credentials and doesn't

understand what a thesis even entails.

:sarcasm:

[Fovea]

22. Can we trade Joe Biden for him?

I think it would be a good deal.

[acmavm]

28. You know, that's pretty funny. Wickedly funny, but funny none the less.

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[Fovea]

29. I can forgive a lot of human frailties

esp in a Pol. But absconding with the work of a scholar and taking the credit is snake piss low.

Plagiarism seems to be on the rise everywhere. It's like everyone uses google(tm) but no one ever figures that they will have to pass through that filter as well.