posted on: 2009-05-03 00:44:49
The New York Times Accused Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Plagiarism
The New York Times reporter Andrew E. Kramer accused Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of plagiarism in his January 28, 2009. article entitled “Putin’s Grasp of Energy Drives Russian Agenda.“
Nearing the end of his article, Andrew Kramer emphasizes that:
As far back as 1997, while serving as deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, Mr. Putin earned a graduate degree in economics, writing his thesis on the economics of natural resources.
Later, when scholars at the Brookings Institution analyzed the text, they found 16 pages had been copied without attribution from a 1978 American business school textbook called “Strategic Planning and Policy,” by David I. Cleland and William R. King of the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Putin has declined to comment on the allegation.
Tellingly, the passages they say were plagiarized relate to the indispensable role of a chief executive in planning within a corporation — the need for one man to have strategic vision and control.
Plus, the newspaper version of the New York Times concludes that Vladimir Putin refused to comment on the accusation. To view original online article in its entirety, see the following New York Times link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/world/europe/29putin.html?_r=2&sq=«Strategic%20Planning%20and%20Policy»&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=all
Putin also made the Famous List in “Politics and Plagiarism” on the FamousPlagiarists.com web site which provides more information relative to this accusation and alleges that the dissertation may have been purchased through a “research services” agency.
In the end, students are are advised that they are better off writing their own work rather than hiring “expert services” because as FamousPlagiarists.com point’s out in most cases, you get what you pay for. Elsewhere, they declare:
While some theorize that Putin himself lifted the material from King and Cleland's book, others suspect that the Russian President may have paid someone to write his dissertation for him, evidently a very shoddy piece of work for his money: "poorly organized . . . poorly written . . . poorly researched, second rate" in the words of Clifford Gaddy, the Brookings Institute scholar who discovered the plagiary after noticing the disjointed style of Putin's PhD thesis (Corwin, J.A. "Russia: U.S. Academics Charge Putin With Plagiarizing Thesis").
Complete profiles of famous plagiarists are researched and indexed as part of an ongoing research project of Famous Plagiarists at http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm. The site makes for an interesting visit.
Author: Ihor Cap
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