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“Trying to downplay the fact of theft”: Urbonaitė on the Prime Minister’s response to the plagiarism scandal

Having identified cases of plagiarism and improper text use in Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius's dissertation, the Ethics Commission of the ISM University of Management and Economics gave the Prime Minister half a year to correct the violations, but does not yet propose initiating the procedure to revoke his doctoral degree. Political scientist Rima Urbonaitė says that in political terms, the plagiarism scandal is a blow to M. Sinkevičius, even though the Prime Minister himself is trying to downplay the commission's conclusions…

Source: LRT

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