Vladimir Medinsky
| Vladimir Medinsky Мединский Владимир Ростиславович |
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| Minister of Culture | |
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Assumed office May 21, 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Dmitry Medvedev |
| Preceded by | Aleksander Avdeev |
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| Born |
Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky July 18, 1970 Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (Today Ukraine) |
| Political party |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Before 1991) Independent (1991–1995) Our Home-Russia (1995–2000) Unity (1999–2001) United Russia (2001–present) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Profession |
Professor Doctor of Sciences in politic and historic studies |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox Christian |
| Website | http://www.medinskiy.ru/ |
Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky (Russian: Владимир Ростиславович Мединский, Ukrainian: Мединський Володимир Ростиславович) (born July 10, 1970) is a Russian political figure, publicist, professor of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations who was a member of the Russian Presidential Commission to counter the attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interest. and since May 2012 served as the Minister of Culture. He is a member of the General Council of the United Russia party. His dissertation thesis and publications on history of Russia were criticized as plagiarism and pseudoscience.
The third thesis of 2011 has been widely debated in the Russian media and a large number of fragments have been shown to bear a significant resemblance to existing academic works, which caused numerous accusations of plagiarism.
On 23 May 2014, the Dissernet community declared to have found plagiarism in two previous dissertations by Medinsky, of 1997 and 1999. According to Dissernet's expertise, in the first thesis 87 pages out of 120 have been borrowed from the thesis of Medinsky's scientific advisor S.A.Proskurin. In the second thesis, 21 pages textually coincide with other people's works.
Vladimir Medinsky supports removal the Vladimir Lenin's body from the Lenin's Mausoleum to bury it.
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