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A candidate's dissertation in Russia (roughly equivalent to a U.S. Ph.D. dissertation) can be bought, sold or copied freely, and strategic planning is still made using models from the 1970s, say two researchers from the U.S. Brookings Institute, Clifford Gaddy and Igor Danchenko. They made these banal conclusions from sensational material: they studied Russian President Vladimir Putin's candidate's dissertation and found trivial plagiarism.
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