The former speaker of the Moscow City Duma abandoned the degree

The former chairman of the Moscow City Duma, Vladimir Platonov, abandoned the degree of Doctor of Law due to the investigation of incorrect borrowings in the dissertation, he wrote about this on his Facebook. On April 22, a meeting of the dissertation council was held regarding the scientific work of Platonov.

The deputy announced that he voluntarily wrote a statement to the dissertation council and assured that "purely legally plagiarism could not be here."

“Having studied all the claims carefully, I saw that some of the materials may fall under the definition of“ unscrupulous borrowing ”. However, they are not taken from other people's work, but from the materials that I used for reports and discussions - what is connected with deputy activities, ”the former speaker of the Moscow City Duma noted.

Platonov emphasized that he did not see the need to “make excuses and prove something to someone” and intends to present a new work to defend a doctoral dissertation during the year.

The project manager of the incorrect borrowing in the dissertations of representatives of the Dissernet authorities Sergey Parkhomenko in a conversation with Slon noted that he did not consider Platonov’s decision voluntary. “It would be voluntary if he did this to formal complaints and the dissertation council,” he added.

Vladimir Platonov was the speaker of the Moscow City Duma from 1994 to 2014, in the election of the chairman of the VI parliament, he took self -setting up and remained a deputy of the United Russia faction. His dissertation “Differentiation of the subjects between the federation and its subjects - as the principle of Russian federalism” was carried out at the Russian University of Friendship of Peoples and was protected in 2010.

The Dissernet investigation of Platonov’s dissertation was published in the fall of 2014, the former speaker then refused to comment on the data according to which 109 out of 412 pages of his work contained incorrect borrowing.