Community "Dissernet" published the data analysis of doctoral dissertation of the president of Russian Duma Sergei Naryshkin. According to the study, Naryshkin has rewritten 40% of the paper without any citation, RBC reports.
The dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences Naryshkin defended in 2004 at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.
In this paper, Naryshkin summarized his experience as chairman of the Committee of Foreign Economic Relations of St. Petersburg since 1998. In February 2004 he became the deputy chief of the economic management of the president, and in March he was appointed as deputy head of the government apparatus. He defended his PhD in October of the same year.