Vladimir Medinsky: Dissertations and accusation of plagiarism
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
coverage 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.

On 3 Oct 2017 the top Russian academic council recommended revoking
Medinsky's 2011 doctorate. However, on 20 Oct 2017 a committee of a
government agency that oversees the awarding of higher academic
degrees ruled in the minister's favour by 16 to 6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Medinsky

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