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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">103</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Political corruption and scientific plagiarism (the elite struggle against falsification)</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Political corruption and scientific plagiarism (the elite struggle against falsification)</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Karabushchenko</surname><given-names>Pavel L.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Karabushchenko</surname><given-names>Pavel L.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>Pavel_karabushenko@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff136" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Lebedeva</surname><given-names>Irena V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Lebedeva</surname><given-names>Irena V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>irenalebedeva@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff137" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff136"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff137"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>1</issue><fpage>278</fpage><lpage>286</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/1/article/103">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/1/article/103</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(34)/278-286.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/1(34)/278-286.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The article considers the falsification and plagiarism problem, which overflowed recently scientific and political community. On concrete examples of the Russian Federation and EU the authors show how the power and the public react to similar cases and how they struggle with them. The article gives examples of the European politicians’ exposure are reveals the details of exposure of German Minister of Defence Karl Theodor zu Gutenber.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article considers the falsification and plagiarism problem, which overflowed recently scientific and political community. On concrete examples of the Russian Federation and EU the authors show how the power and the public react to similar cases and how they struggle with them. The article gives examples of the European politicians’ exposure are reveals the details of exposure of German Minister of Defence Karl Theodor zu Gutenber.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>plagiarism</kwd><kwd>corruption</kwd><kwd>national safety</kwd><kwd>elite</kwd><kwd>officials</kwd><kwd>politicians</kwd><kwd>scientific</kwd><kwd>scholasticism</kwd><kwd>system crisis</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>falsification</kwd><kwd>plagiarism</kwd><kwd>corruption</kwd><kwd>national safety</kwd><kwd>elite</kwd><kwd>officials</kwd><kwd>politicians</kwd><kwd>scientific</kwd><kwd>scholasticism</kwd><kwd>system crisis</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>