Eyes would not look

Member of Dissernet, Ivan Babitsky, appealed to the highest certification commission the decision of the dissertation council at the History Faculty of Moscow State University on the refusal to consider the dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. It is reported by Kommersant.

According to the head of the history of Russia XIX - at the beginning of the 20th century, Professor Sergey Mironenko, the voting of the dissoet was held with numerous violations. The procedure for considering the dissertation is clearly scheduled. The disable was supposed to create a commission, appoint the date of the meeting and invite the applicants and the author of the work in 15 days. At the same time, the meeting itself should have been open to everyone. However, in the case of Medinsky, these rules were not observed.

According to Mironenko, on February 7, he participated in the rank -and -file meeting of the dissertation. There was no mention of the minister’s work on the agenda. The Dean of the Eastfacing, Ivan Tuchkov, entered the audience and asked him to go out to everyone who was not included in the dissent. The dean said that the Higher Attestation Commission by mistake instead of the dissovetor of the plaintiff at number 501.001.72 sent a dissertation of Medinsky to the public administration faculty at the science 501.001.02. However, the rector nevertheless sent part of the documents for the Eastfacing for familiarization. At the same time, the dissertation itself was not among the documents.

The dean and the head of the council were proposed to vote for the draft resolution prepared by them with the refusal of the "further consideration" of the materials, - Mironenko said. Some of the members of the dissociator demanded to get the text of the dissertation itself from the Higher Attestation Commission and its assessment by all the rules.

“But the general mood was like this - let's do everything so that we do not have to discuss the dissertation of the minister,” Mironenko said. “Some members of the Council said directly:“ Why do we need to delve into this shit, let's vote as soon as possible, and it will end up ”. As a result, 12 people supported the dean’s position, six spoke out against and one abstained. Mironenko.

An application for the deprivation of a medin degree was submitted by doctors of historical sciences Vyacheslav Kozlyakov, Konstantin Yerusalimsky and PH.D. 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 .

On January 21, Medinsky stated that he was ready for a public discussion about his dissertation and intends to make fun of the attacks of his opponents . "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.