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Putin plagiarized US textbook for thesis

Russian President Vladimir Putin plagiarized sections of an American management textbook in writing an economics dissertation a decade ago, The Washington Times newspaper reported.

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WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin plagiarized sections of an American management textbook in writing an economics dissertation a decade ago, The Washington Times newspaper reported. 
 
Putin, who wrote a 218-page paper on planning in the natural resources sector, reportedly lifted numerous passages directly from a management text published by two University of Pittsburgh academics, the Times said on Saturday, citing research by two scholars at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington.
 
Putin, who obtained a doctorate degree in economics in 1997 from the St Petersburg Mining Institute wrote his thesis on The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations.
 
After reviewing the document, Brookings researchers Clifford Gaddy and Igor Danchenko concluded that large sections of Putin's dissertation were copied almost word-for-word from the 1978 management text Strategic Planning and Policy, by University of Pittsburgh professors William King and David Cleland.
 
Gaddy told the Times that 16 pages of Putin's dissertation were taken either verbatim or with minor alterations from the American work. 
 
Putin's paper reportedly also incorporated diagrams and tables from the US textbook, which was translated into Russian by a KGB-related institute in the early 1990s.   
 
"It all boils down to plagiarism," Gaddy told the newspaper.   
 
"Whether you're talking about a college-level term paper, not to mention a formal dissertation, there's no question in my mind that this would be plagiarism," he told the daily.
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