The point is clear that the matter is dark

The Ministry of Education and Science refused to give out the dissertation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky at the request of a member of the Presidium of the Higher Certification Commission, the scientific director of the State Highway Sergey Sergey Mironenko. It is reported by "Rain".

“When it became known that Vladimir Rostislavovich had problems with opponents, I decided to see what was said in his dissertation case. They first began to say that it is in the countryside storage, and when I said that I was working in the State Archive and I know that the Ministry of Education has no suburban storage, they said that they should consult Mironenko. According to him, after this conversation, an employee of the apparatus of the Presidium of the VAK Dmitry Bystrov turned off the phone.

As the co -founder of Dissernet, Sergei Parkhomenko, said, other scientists cannot receive documents. “There are people who demanded to look at the dissertation, and they have the right to this - and they were told:“ Sorry, no, it just had happened somewhere, ”said Parkhomenko.

This week, it turned out that there are several options for an abstract of the dissertation of Medinsky. In one of them, professors Basir Hasanov, Alexander Borisov and Vladimir Lavrov are indicated as opponents. On Thursday, the Interfax correspondent on the second attempt managed to get acquainted with the instance of the abstract from the funds of the Russian State Library, signed by the scientist secretary of the dissovement and having the seal of the library. On the second page, these three scientists also have opponents. At the same time, the RSL is an official registry holder of print media, that is, the original copy is considered the original.

On Monday, New Gazeta said that Borisov and Lavrov have denied their participation in defense . According to Lavrov, Medinsky invited him to become an opponent, but the scientist refused, because he does not specialize in the period in question in the dissertation.

In addition, two members of the Higher Attestation Commission in 2007-2013, Vladimir Roginsky and Victoria Ukolova, said that the Council did not approve the dissertation of the minister after defending in the dissolution and presenting opponents' reviews, as required by the rules. According to the documents, the Council approved the work of the official on December 30, 2011. Ukolova explained that at the end of the year the minister’s dissertation “decided to postpone”, and already in early 2012, members of the council found out that the work was allegedly approved. The opponents declared in the dissertation of the Medinsky are not related to her theme, which “does not correspond to the name,” added Roginsky. In his opinion, the work was written "in the light genre of the pamphlet."

On Tuesday, the press service of the Ministry of Culture introduced Interfax a photocopy of the title sheet of the abstract, on which Vladimir Semin, Vladimir Tymchik, Anatoly Korolev are opponents of Melinsky. The same photocopy was published on Twitter by the Russian Military Historical Society. “These are questions for the Higher Attestation (why another version of the abstract is published on the site. - Ed.). Indeed, they turned to these people, but they then gave narrower specialists on the topic,” said the representative of the Medinsky newspaper Vedomosti. The RVIO said that these opponents are indicated in the "draft" of the abstract.

At the same time, on the websites of the Higher Attestation Commission and the Russian State Social University, where the defense was held, Gasanov, Borisov and Lavrov are indicated in the abstract of the dissertation of Medinsky as opponents.

On Wednesday, the head of the History of the Fatherland of the Russian State Social University (RSSU) Nikolai Starostenko stated that "on the technical error of the secretary of the dissociator", the incorrect version of the Author of the dissertation of Medinsky was sent to Rosobrnadzor and a number of libraries. "To blame the dissertation for this mistake of the dissociator, in my opinion, is unfair. It is necessary to punish the scatter," Starostenko said. It was at the RSSU that the defense of the Minister of Culture took place.

“The fact that the desired option was not sent to Rosobrnadzor is invalid,” said Andrei Zazakin, co -founder of Dissernet. “Protection is possible only after the abstract was sent to Rosobrnadzor and not some kind of parsley. Today, Starostenko admitted that Parsley was sent to the Higher Attestation Commission. "Author" is not the abstract by which the defense was going on. "

On October 2, the Higher Attestation Council voted for the deprivation of the Medina degree of a doctor of historical sciences.

The official opinion of the Higher School experts says that in his work Medinsky did not open anything new. “The fact that many foreigners in their writings“ were tendentious ”and wrote“ under the influence of a certain political conjuncture ”, since 1866, has been known to Russian historical science thanks to the classical work of Vasily Klyuchevsky“ The Tale of Foreigners about the Moscow State, ”the document says. Medinsky also stated in the dissertation that“ the national interests of Russia create an absolute standard of truthfulness. ” contradicts the methodological principles of historical science.

According to experts, the minister enjoyed the translations of sources, and not by the originals, selectively quoted the annals. The expert council also doubted that Medinsky generally worked in the archives. “Of course, individual flaws, errors, inaccuracies, typos can be in any study. But in the dissertation of Medinsky, their number goes off scale, being a systemic, qualitative problem,” the Higher School experts came to the conclusion.

The Presidium of the VAK at the meeting on October 20 will finally decide the fate of the scientific degree of Medinsky.