Researchers peg Putin as a plagiarist over thesis

March 26, 2006 12:12 PM

Vladimir Putin can add a new line to his resume: plagiarist.
posted by rxrfrx (14 comments total)

Hah. Its intresting to see all these plagiarist's get busted these days.
posted by delmoi at 12:18 PM on March 26, 2006

MOONIE RAG
posted by interrobang at 12:19 PM on March 26, 2006

COMMIE RAG
posted by rxrfrx at 12:34 PM on March 26, 2006

maybe the WashingtonPost will offer him a job as redstate blogger. too bad he's not homeschooled
posted by matteo at 12:38 PM on March 26, 2006

He's no Ben Domenech.
posted by bardic at 12:40 PM on March 26, 2006

Discussed also on Daily Kos.

Particularly amusing quote from article:
"I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy....I was able to get a sense of his soul."
(George W. Bush, after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 16, 2001)
posted by kaemaril at 12:54 PM on March 26, 2006

The official Kremlin biography asserts Mr. Putin obtained a "Ph.D. in economics" in 1997 from the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, but his thesis was for a "candidate of sciences" degree that is considered at least an academic class below a formal doctoral degree.

Just fyi, the Russian candidate of sciences *is* generally considered equivalent to a PhD.
posted by Krrrlson at 1:29 PM on March 26, 2006

So they're saying Putin had a friend in Minsk
Who had a friend in Pimsk
Whose friend in Omsk
Had friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akhmolensk?
posted by dilettante at 2:06 PM on March 26, 2006

NYTimes = MOONBAT RAG
NYPost = WINGNUT RAG

Did we leave any out?
posted by HTuttle at 3:51 PM on March 26, 2006

Putin should thank his lucky stars that George Bush exists. He's a stooge, and idiot and a hack. As far as I'm concerned, this is the least embarrasing thing about KGB Dima.
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:18 PM on March 26, 2006

uh, gesamtkunstwerk, I'm no big fan of Putin, and he's sure fucked up enough, but he's also got a near monopoly on political power in Russia and still has tendrils in most of the FSU. 'Evil fucking autocrat?' Yes. 'Idiot?' No.
posted by Football Bat at 10:10 PM on March 26, 2006

Nicely done, dilettante.

Plagiarize!
Let no one else's work evade your eyes!
Remember why the Good Lord made your eyes
So don't shade your eyes
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize but always remember to call it please... "research."

Tom Lehrer, where are you when we need you now?
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:43 AM on March 27, 2006

Even so, he probably shouldn't put it on his resume.
posted by found missing at 9:06 AM on March 27, 2006

Putin would make a nice Bush appointee. Or a WP blogger even.
posted by nofundy at 11:42 AM on March 27, 2006