Official accused of plagiarism

The “Dissernet” portal accuses the Deputy Director of the Center for Strategic Research under the President of Tajikistan, Jurakhonzoda Saodat Khursand, of plagiarism.

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As reported by “Dissernet”, Mutieva Saodat Jurajonovna (later changed her name to a Tajik version) in her dissertation on the topic “Improving the System of Employment Services in the Republic of Tajikistan” entirely or partially copied 115 pages out of 149 from Elena Melnikova’s dissertation on the topic “Employment Services in the Labor Market” from 2002. The extensive borrowings are presented without reference to the original source.

Mutieva Saodat Jurajonovna (Jurakhonzoda Saodat Khursand) defended her dissertation on May 14, 2011, before the dissertation council of the Tajik State University of Commerce under the guidance of former Deputy Minister of Education and Science and former head of the Center for Strategic Research of Tajikistan Dilovar Kodirzoda.

It is also reported that on January 20, 2022, the dissertation council D310.001.03 at the Russian Customs Academy recommended revoking Mutieva’s academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Comments from Saodat Jurakhonzoda are not available to the media.

Over the past four years, “Dissernet” has accused more than 60 Tajik scholars of plagiarism, including among them were high-ranking government officials.