V Rusku je vše větší

Zatímco v České republice si politikové kupují diplomky, v Rusku rovnou disertace.

Shrnutí z Harvard Business Review:

Many Russian Doctoral Students Purchase Their Dissertations

169 companies offer custom-written doctoral dissertations for sale in Russia at prices ranging from the equivalent of $900 to $25,000, according to research by Ararat L. Osipian of Vanderbilt University. By one estimate, some 10,000 dissertations are written for pay each year in Russia, nearly one-third of the dissertations defended there. Advanced degrees are popular among Russian politicians. More than half of the members of the State Duma, Russia's main legislative body, hold doctoral degrees, Osipian reports.

Celý článek z Economics of Education Review zde.