Ukraine’s new Minister of Education, Oksen Lisovoy, was found guilty of plagiarizing his doctoral thesis, Strana newspaper reported.
It has been clarified that Lisovoy may have stolen part of his scientific work “Sociocultural Self-Description of Personality” from Petr Yushchenko, the brother of the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko. The work “National Idea as a Matrix of Personality Formation” was advocated by Yushchenko in 2009 and Lisova in 2012.
It is also suspected that Lisovoy directly used the results of the thesis obtained from the summary of Andrey Kurguzov, who defended his work “Language as a way of socio-cultural self-description of a person” in 2003.
Lisova in social networks reacted He stated that he sent his scientific work for expert examination and promised that he would reject his doctorate if plagiarism was detected. However, Lisova does not intend to relinquish her ministerial post.
He is the author of more than 250 scientific publications and 25 authored scientific publications.