Think, want, make fun

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky is ready for public discussion about his dissertation and intends to make fun of the attacks of his opponents. This is reported by Interfax.

"I have nothing to be ashamed of, I am absolutely sure of my position, and any attacks on it, under the pretext of considering a scientific dissertation, will be publicly ridiculed by me. I am absolutely ready for any public discussion," Medinsky said.

On Tuesday, the chairman of the highest certification commission, Vladimir Filippov, said that the dissertation council at the Faculty of History of Moscow State University should consider the issue of a doctoral dissertation of Medinsky until March 1. The date of the meeting has not yet been defined.

On Wednesday, the Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilieva announced the desire to attend a meeting of the dissertation council at Moscow State University, where the issue of the dissertation of the Minister of Culture will be considered.

“It will be a scientific dispute, a really good conversation, and to be honest, I myself would love to be attended. I don’t know if I can do it. Because I am interested in how he will perform,” Vasilieva said. “I think this will be an interesting event, a very bright event, it will be a bright scientific historical dispute.”

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the Soviet Union, when only the only point of view was considered correct, and all the others - bourgeois, revisionist, outdated, cosmopolitan and any more.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 the Minister was to consider the dissociate 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 the presence" on it from the minister and from the highest certification commission on it were received by the disservice. On October 7, the Higher Attestation Commission withdrawn from the URFU a statement of deprivation of a Medinsky degree , since "expired the two -month period of the application in this dissolution."

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.

On November 25, the consideration of the issue of the dissertation of Medinsky was transferred to Moscow State University . However, a set of documents has not yet officially entered the disset.