Keeping an important person

The Presidium of the highest certification commission recommended that the Doctor of Historical Sciences be left Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. According to Interfax, 14 members of the Presidium voted for such a decision, six opposed, four abstained.

As the Vedomosti specify , Medinsky personally attended the meeting of the Presidium. The supporting Medinsky historian Konstantin Averyanov also came there. In addition, the meeting was attended by one of the initiators of the deprivation of the Medina degree Ivan Babitsky and the head of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Chubaryan. It took place closed in the Ministry of Education and Science in Moscow on Lusinovskaya Street.

The decision of the VAK Presidium regarding the dissertation of Medinsky should approve the Ministry of Education and Science. "Based on the decision of the Presidium of the highest certification commission, the ministry will be prepared in the near future in the near future," the press service of the department said .

Medinsky himself thanked the members of the VAK Presidium for an “honest and balanced approach” to his dissertation. "Now, if there is time and an opportunity, (I would like to) publish selected places from a dissertation in the form of a monograph, possibly with comments for a more popular reading," the minister said .

On October 2, the Higher Attestation Council voted for the deprivation of a median scientific degree .

The official conclusion of the Higher School experts said that Medinsky did not open anything new in his work. “The fact that many foreigners in their writings“ were tendentious ”and wrote“ under the influence of a certain political situation ”, since 1866, has known Russian historical science thanks to the classical work of Vasily Klyuchevsky“ The Tale of Foreigners about the Moscow State, ”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.

As experts noted, 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.

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 day before, it became known that the Ministry of Education and Science refused to give out the mother of the dissertation of the Medinsky member of the Presidium of the VAK, the scientific leader of the State Highway Sergei Mironenko.

In April last year, the application for the deprivation of the Medine degree was submitted by the Doctor of Historical Sciences Vyacheslav Kozlyakov, Konstantin Yerusalimsky and the holder of the degree of 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 work of Medinsky was refused to consider the dissociates of the Ural State University and Moscow State University, then its scientific value was confirmed by the dissent of the Belgorod State University.