Vladimir Putin is the fourth and current
President of Russia, incumbent since 7 May 2012. He previously served as
the second President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia
from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012. The Olympics, his success in the Middle East and his efforts to reestablish Russia have all raised his profile.
Like most of our esteemed world leaders, Putin is an academic. He earned a PhD through a dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Regrettably, later, this document was proven to have been plagiarized from a KGB translation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier, this according to Brookings researchers Gaddy and Danchenko. Large sections of the dissertation’s central argument were taken almost word-for-word from the 1978 management text “Strategic Planning and Policy,” by University of Pittsburgh professors William R. King and David I. Cleland.
Like most of our esteemed world leaders, Putin is an academic. He earned a PhD through a dissertation in “strategic planning” at St. Petersburg’s Mining Institute. Regrettably, later, this document was proven to have been plagiarized from a KGB translation of work by U.S. professors published many years earlier, this according to Brookings researchers Gaddy and Danchenko. Large sections of the dissertation’s central argument were taken almost word-for-word from the 1978 management text “Strategic Planning and Policy,” by University of Pittsburgh professors William R. King and David I. Cleland.
But our leaders are accustomed to expropriating the work of others to distribute as they see fit.
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