Putin’s official biography says that he graduated from the law department of Leningrad State University in 1975 and in 1976 defended his doctoral thesis on economics at the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute.
Washington Post reporter David Hoffman in 2000 asked the institute for a copy of the 218-page thesis but was refused. He wrote in this story:
The Mining Institute recently refused to show Putin’s thesis to a reporter. When a copy of a summary was found by the reporter in the institute’s library, officials snatched it away, saying it was private.
In
2005, two researchers at the Brookings Institution in Washington got a
copy of the thesis, titled “Strategic Planning of the Reproduction of
the Mineral Resource Base of a Region under Conditions of the Formation
of Market Relations,” and presented their findings in 2006. Researchers Clifford Gaddy and Igor Danchenko found that the thesis had been heavily “borrowed” from a 1978 textbook, “Strategic Planning and Public Policy,” written by University of Pittsburgh Professors David I. Cleland and William R. King.
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