There is nowhere to retreat, ahead of the Moscow State University

The doctoral dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky will consider the dissolution of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. Such a decision was made by the Presidium of the Higher Certification Commission, RBC reports .

The meeting of the dissociator will take place in the next two months, the sources of the publication said.

The Dissertation Council D 501.001.72 considers work in the specialties "Russian History" and "Historiography, source studies and methods of historical research." It includes the supervisor of the State Archive of Russia Sergey Mironenko.

In July 2015, the Gosarchive placed on his website the digitized report "On 28 Panfilovtsy", which was prepared in 1948 by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the USSR. It proves that the history of 28 fighters of the Panfilov division, allegedly stopping the German tank attack near Moscow at the cost of his own life in November 1941, was a newspaper fiction.

On July 30, Medinsky threatened Mironenko with dismissal . “There is a question of what archives should deal with,” said the head of the Ministry of Culture. “For which the state pays money for them, and not to master related professions.” The director of the archive, the minister continued, "this is not a writer, not a journalist, not a fighter with historical falsifications." According to Medinsky, “what sounds appropriate in the lips of Nikolai Svanidze,” should not be expressed by the head of the archive. “If there is a desire to change the profession, we will understand it,” the official concluded.

On March 16, Mironenko, who headed the state committee since its founding in 1992, left the post of director of his own free will and took the post of scientific director of this structure.

An application for the deprivation of a medin degree was submitted by doctors of historical sciences Vyacheslav Kozlyakov, Konstantin Yerusalimsky and PH.D. Ivan Babitsky. Having analyzed the dissertation of the Minister "Objectivity Problems in the coverage of Russian history of the second half of the XV-XVII centuries," they have called into question its scientific value.

The full text of the application is published on the website of Dissernet. It notes that the dissertation of Medinsky made gross methodological and factual errors. In addition, for the bibliography to his dissertation, Medinsky copied fragments of bibliography to other people's work. There are other claims to the dissertation.

Medinsky himself called the requirement to deprive him of a return to the times of the USSR. “The very formulation of the question seems to be a phantasmagoric and returns us to the best times of the Soviet Union, when only the only point of view was considered correct, and all the others - bourgeois, revisionist, outdated, cosmopolitan and any more. I would really not want to slip in historical science in those days,” the minister said.

The work of Medinsky was to consider the dissertation council of the Ural Federal University. However, on October 4, the Council postponed the meeting . Letters with the corresponding request "in connection with the impossibility of presence" on him Medinsky from the minister himself and from the Higher Attestation Commission were received in the disservation.

On October 7, the Higher Attestation Commission withdrawn an application for deprivation of the scientific degree of Medinsky . Representatives of the commission recommended applying for clarifications to the Ministry of Education and Science, to which the commission obeys, explaining that "has" expired the two -month period of the application in this disk. "

On October 28, 24 Academician and member of the RAS supported the demand to deprive the Medina degree . According to the authors of the appeal, the decision on the dissertation of the minister "should fully include the competence of scientists, and no administrative pressure is unacceptable here." "An unprecedented intervention of the Higher Attestation Committee in a professional examination of the dissertation discredits the entire system of scientific certification in Russia," the letter says.

"The purpose of science is to search for truth, and attempts to replace it with myths, no matter what considerations this is done, undermine the foundations of a scientific view of the world. Patriotic rhetoric cannot serve as an excuse for incompetence. It is also unacceptable to replace the normal scientific controversy of the semi -abundance of the opponents, moreover, is especially outrageous, when such a swearing sounds from the lines of the minister Cultures, ”the document said.