And goes away, and cries, leaving

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilieva signed an order to dismiss the rector of the Moscow Polytechnic University Andrei Nikolayenko. This was reported by TASS with reference to the head of the Department of Information Policy of the Department of Andrei Emelyanov.

"On October 25, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science signed an order on nine -day leave with the subsequent dismissal of the rector of the Moscow Polytechnic University," Emelyanov said.

The rector of the Moscow Polytechnic resigned on Wednesday. In his statement, Nikolaenko wrote that recently he has been faced with “various accusations” in connection with his doctoral dissertation. The rector called most of the arguments of his opponents "insolvent, and sometimes absurd." Nikolayenko noted that further participation in the "information war unleashed against him" is harmful to the university and its founder, the Ministry of Education and Science.

The Dissernet community found in the doctoral dissertation Nikolayenko, defended in 2012, large -scale borrowing from the textbook Vitaly Eliferov and Vladimir Repin and articles by Sergey and Valery Kovalevs. In December 2016, Nikolayenko was considered in the dissolution of the Rostov Economic State University. The Orlov State University, in which the defense took place, sent several collections of scientific articles, where the rector acted as the co -author of Eliferov, Repin and Kovalevs. As a result, the disable retained for Nikolaenko the status of a doctor of science.

However, a serious printing marriage, which could arise "with a hasty and careless manufacture of the collection with retroactively, was found in the" disserte "in the disserter. There is no information about these print publications in the Russian Book Chamber and scientific libraries, although by law the university was supposed to send several copies for eternal storage there. In addition, Eliferov, Repin and Kovalevs reported that they were not even familiar with Nikolayenko.

On October 3, the co -founder of Dissernet Andrei Zazakin sent a statement to the Investigative Committee, in which he asks to check the heads of the Oryol State University for the non -targeted spending of budget funds (Article 285.1) during the publication of fake collections.

In November 2015, one of the founders of Dissernet Andrei Rostovtsev said that among the proven dissertations of the current rectors of the Russian universities , 21 percent of the work turned out to be false . "Dissernet" checked the work of 311 rectors who have been defended over the past 15 years. In 66 dissertations, extensive borrowings were found. According to Rostovtsev, this indicates a negative selection for the position of rector. The investigations have long been transferred to the Ministry of Education and Science to the Supreme Certification Commission, but university leaders convicted in plagiarism are still flourishing, Rostovtsev noted.