Vladimir Medinsky

Vladimir Medinsky
Мединский Владимир Ростиславович
Minister of Culture
Assumed office
May 21, 2012
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Preceded by Aleksander Avdeev
Personal details
Born Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky
(1970-07-18) July 18, 1970
Smila, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR (Today Ukraine)
Political party Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Before 1991)
Independent (1991–1995)
Our Home-Russia (1995–2000)
Unity (1999–2001)
United Russia (2001–present)
Alma mater Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Profession Professor
Doctor of Sciences in political and historical studies
Website http://www.medinskiy.ru/

Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky (Russian: Владимир Ростиславович Мединский, Ukrainian: Мединський Володимир Ростиславович; born July 10, 1970) is a Russian political figure, academic and publicist who since May 2012 serves as the Minister of Culture.[1] He is a member of the General Council of the United Russia party. His Higher Doctoral dissertation thesis on history of Russia was criticized as pseudoscience.

Dissertations and accusation of plagiarism

  • 1997 - defended Doctoral dissertation in political science
  • 1999 - defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in political science[2]
  • June 2011 - defended Higher Doctoral dissertation in history in the Russian State Social University: "Problems of objectivity in the coverage of Russian history from the second half of the 15th to 17th centuries".

The third thesis of 2011 has been widely debated in the Russian media and a large number of fragments have been shown to bear a significant resemblance to existing academic works, which caused numerous accusations of plagiarism.[3][4]

On 23 May 2014, the Dissernet community, an informal group of academics and journalists concerned with dissertation plagiarism, declared to have found plagiarism in two previous dissertations by Medinsky, of 1997[5] and 1999.[6] According to Dissernet's expertise, in the first thesis 87 pages out of 120 have been borrowed from the thesis of Medinsky's scientific advisor S.A.Proskurin. In the second thesis, 21 pages textually coincide with other people's works.[2][7]

On 3 October 2017 the top Russian academic council recommended revoking Medinsky's 2011 doctorate.[8] However, on 20 October 2017 a committee of a government agency that oversees the awarding of higher academic degrees ruled in the minister's favour by 16 to 6.[9]

Views

Medinsky has been described as a "nationalist enamoured of classicism and traditional values."[10]

Vladimir Medinsky supports the removal of Vladimir Lenin's body from the Lenin's Mausoleum to bury it.[11][12]

Medinsky believes that Stalin statues should be erected in places where the majority of local people are in favour.[13]

In 2013, Medinsky's Culture Ministry proposed an updated cultural policy blueprint. Calling for "a rejection of the principles of tolerance and multiculturalism", it emphasizes Russian "traditional values" and cautions against "pseudo-art" that may be at variance with those values.[14]

In 2015, Medinsky called for the creation of a Russian "patriotic Internet" to combat Western ideas, adding that those who are against Russia are against the truth.[15]

Honours

Bibliography

Medinskiy present his books in Ryazan, 2009
  • The Wall (Стена), 2012, ISBN 978-5-373-04522-3
  • Myths about Russia (Мифы о России), Series of books by Vladimir Medinskiy
  • Legal basis for commercial advertising by Vladimir Medinskiy and Kirill Vsevolozhskiy, ISBN 5-901084-01-2
  • Scoundrels and geniuses PR. From Rurik to Ivan the Terrible by V. Medinskiy, 2011, ISBN 978-5-388-00487-1

References

  1. ↑ Состав нового Правительства РФ, New government's structure, Ekho Moskvy radio (Russian)
  2. 1 2 "Dissernet's" Experts found plagiarism
  3. ↑ "Profile: Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's Controversial New Culture Minister". RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty.
  4. ↑ "Vladimir Medinsky".
  5. ↑ "Мединский Владимир Ростиславович".
  6. ↑ "Мединский Владимир Ростиславович".
  7. ↑ "Meet the Second-Rate Academic Who is Vladimir Putin's Culture Cop".
  8. ↑ "Russia's 'Myth'-Busting Culture Minister Embroiled In Doctoral Thesis Scandal".
  9. ↑ "Russian minister keeps doctorate despite plagiarism claims".
  10. ↑ https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21726700-outbreak-competitive-cultural-toadying-moscow-charlemagne-russian-culture-wars Charlemagne: Russian culture wars
  11. ↑ Министр культуры предлагает торжественно похоронить Ленина,Minister of Culture has offer to solemnly bury Lenin - Russian source
  12. ↑ Мединский: Тело Ленина пора выносить из мавзолея, Medinskiy: The Time as come to remove Lenin's body from the Mausoleum, er.ru
  13. ↑ "A battle for truth and glory as Russia marks Victory Day". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  14. ↑ "Минкультуры изложило «Основы государственной культурной политики»" [Culture Ministry lays out "Basis of national cultural policy"]. Izvestia (in Russian). 2014-04-10. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
  15. ↑ "Russia's culture minister calls for new 'patriotic Internet' to combat Western spin". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-06-06.
  16. ↑ Ordonnance Souveraine n° 5.660 du 17 décembre 2015
Political offices
Preceded by
Aleksander Avdeev		 Russian Minister of Culture
May 21, 2012–present		 Incumbent
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