The Higher Attestation Commission refused to deprive the academic degree of the rector of the Grozny University, who borrowed part of his dissertation from Wikipedia

In Chechnya, the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC) refused to deprive the academic degree of the rector of the Grozny State Petroleum Technical University, Khasan Taimaskhanov, who copied part of Wikipedia in his dissertation. This was reported by Dozhd with reference to one of the experts of the Dissernet community, Andrei Zayakin.

According to Zayakin, the expert council recognized that the text of the dissertation coincides with Wikipedia. At the same time, the chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission, Vladimir Filippov, called it an acceptable source from which one can take information for a dissertation, and the rest of the commission members supported him.

“Taymaskhanov doesn’t speak Russian very well, so it was difficult to understand what he said in his defense,” Zayakin said.

Earlier, the founder of Dissernet, Sergei Parkhomenko, published on his Facebook page a comparison of Taimaskhanov’s dissertation on the topic “State support as a mechanism for ensuring sustainable development of the agro-industrial complex.”

The audit showed that Taimakhanov completely borrowed six pages of his dissertation from Wikipedia. Parkhomenko also said that the work contains borrowings from other texts, and actual data for one year was given for another.

“And especially not because the text uses the well-known “search and ripple” method - when copying pages from someone else’s dissertation, all references to the “Republic of Kalmykia” are replaced with the “Chechen Republic”,” writes Parkhomenko.

In his publication, the founder of Dissernet calls the rector a representative of the “noble and influential Taimaskhanov family, neighbors of the Kadyrov family in the village of Tsentoroy,” whose members head the department of the Ministry of Justice for the republic and hold the post of plenipotentiary representative of the head of the Chechen Republic to the president. Khasan Taimakhanov himself headed the Chechen Ministry of Agriculture.