Igor Fedyukin: "We touched on serious economic interests" - Proceedings

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Duma faction leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky accused the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Igor Fedyukin of forging a diploma of higher education. According to the politician, he has documents supporting the charges, and is willing to give them a copy of the Investigation Committee. Igor Fedyukin agreed to talk to “News” that he thinks the charges LDPR leader.

– How do you react to the statement of Zhirinovsky? Do not you think his next attack on the leadership of the Ministry of Education?

– utterly meaningless attack on our team – a direct consequence of the struggle against hacks and plagiarists, we lead. We understand that touched on serious economic interests and met with resistance. We were ready for this, and we are convinced that without restoring order in the protection of theses Russian science can not develop. Its just strangle wave schlock that has grown with us to unimaginable proportions. Therefore, we will continue to work. From our point of view, these attacks mean that we are doing everything correctly.

– Zhirinovsky said that you graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in 1997 – but in the “specialization” in the diploma did not specify. How do we explain this fact? And there appeared another diploma – specialization “Russia-USA»?

– As far as I remember, all of our first course was given diplomas without specialization, and then guide the university has decided to correct them and made a clarification. I, like my colleagues, were the program has two specializations – basic and auxiliary. It is accordingly the XVIII century Russian history and American Studies. As my degree is now widely available on the Internet, anyone can see that there are “cross-cultural courses” – a total of 530 hours.

– The head of the Liberal Democratic Party pointed out that your test book is filled with “one hand”. What can you say about that?

– You know, I have not seen your record book 15 years from the date of issue. I wonder where the politicians or bloggers can have access to the documents of its kind – as I understand it, they should be stored in the archives of the university to which outsiders should not have access. We have sent a request to the State Humanitarian University, and I am sure that all colleagues will clarify in the near future.