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Prime Minister
  
Spouse
  
Marina Medinskaya

Role
  
Russian Political figure

Name
  
Vladimir Medinsky

Preceded by
  
Aleksander Avdeev


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Full Name
  
Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky

Born
  
July 18, 1970 (age 53) Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (Today Ukraine) (
1970-07-18
)

Profession
  
ProfessorDoctor of Sciences in politic and historic studies

Religion
  
Russian Orthodox Christian

Political party
  
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Independent politician, Our Home – Russia, Unity, United Russia

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Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky (Russian: Владимир Ростиславович Мединский, Ukrainian: Мединський Володимир Ростиславович) (born July 10, 1970) is a Russian political figure, publicist, and since May 2012 serves 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.

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Dissertations and accusation of plagiarism

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  • 1997 - defended Doctoral dissertation in political science
  • 1999 - defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in political science
  • June 2011 - defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in history in the Russian State Social University: "Problems of objectivity in the illumination of Russian history from the second half of the 15th to 17th centuries".
  • 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, an informal group of academics and journalists concerned with dissertation plagiarism, 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.

    Views

    Medinsky has been described as a "nationalist enamoured of classicism and traditional values."

    Vladimir Medinsky supports the removal of Vladimir Lenin's body from the Lenin's Mausoleum to bury it.

    Medinsky believes that Stalin statues should be erected in places where the majority of local people are in favour.

    In 2013, Medinsky's Culture Ministry proposed an updated cultural policy blueprint. Calling for "a rejection of the principles of tolerance and multiculturalism", it emphasizes Russian "traditional values" and cautions against "pseudo-art" that may be at variance with those values.

    In 2015, Medinsky called for the creation of a Russian "patriotic Internet" to combat Western ideas, adding that those who are against Russia are against the truth.

    References

    Vladimir Medinsky Wikipedia