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The anti-plagiarism initiative “Diserget” caught the vice-rector of the Boris Hrinchenko University in the capital, Nataliya Vinnikova, for plagiarism. In an interview with Hlavkom, Diserget coordinator Svitlana Blahodetelieva-Vovk said that Nataliya Vinnikova is a two-time plagiarist, since plagiarism was found in two of her works — her candidate’s and doctoral dissertations.
“A very serious situation, for example, at the Boris Hrinchenko University: the chair of the Academic Council, Ms. Vinnikova (Vinnikova Nataliya Mykolayivna — vice-rector for research and international activities, chair of the University’s Academic Council; Doctor of Philological Sciences, professor) — is a two-time plagiarist. Plagiarism was detected in her candidate’s and doctoral dissertations,” the researcher noted.
Below are excerpts from Blahodetelieva-Vovk’s report regarding the specific passages where plagiarism was detected in the work titled “Ukrainian Literary Parody: Genesis, Issues, Poetics.” The left column of the table contains quotations from Vinnikova’s dissertation; the right column lists the sources of borrowing.
Yellow highlights indicate text fragments showing signs of academic plagiarism in the form of rewriting; red indicates verbatim copying, serious manipulation of data, or blind borrowing of another’s scholarly apparatus or bibliography without real engagement with the primary sources; blue indicates technical blocks, footnotes, sources, or cross-references (when, in the borrowed paragraph, source numbers from the borrower’s own bibliography are deliberately changed to hide plagiarism).
Moreover, in the candidate’s dissertation (which Vinnikova wrote under the surname Kyriienko, — Hlavkom) on the topic “The Aesthetic System of Mykhailo Orest: Genesis, Creative Realization,” the researcher says there is also a considerable amount of plagiarism.
The left column of the table contains quotations from the candidate’s dissertation; the right column lists the sources of borrowing.
Blahodetelieva-Vovk explained that this will have certain legal consequences for the university.
“First, the individuals who defended under her supervision may be deprived of their academic degrees due to formal noncompliance with the rules — we will file statements-notifications to revoke the decisions of the specialized academic councils regarding their academic supervisor. And when a decision is made that she is not a scholar at all, but simply a fraud, then the diplomas of those scholars for whom she was the supervisor will de jure become invalid. By the way, she is also the vice-rector for research,” added Svitlana Blahodetelieva-Vovk.
Hlavkom publishes the full reports with the results of checks of Nataliya Vinnikova’s two dissertations.
report on the doctoral dissertation “Ukrainian Literary Parody: Genesis, Issues, Poetics”;
report on the candidate’s dissertation “The Aesthetic System of Mykhailo Orest: Genesis, Creative Realization.”
Recall that Servant of the People faction chair Davyd Arakhamia was preparing to defend a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The topic of his work is “Features of the activities of a parliamentary faction with the rights of a coalition in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.”
The defense was to take place 8 September, but it was postponed due to a lack of quorum. Meanwhile, experts found a number of errors in the politician’s work, possible signs of plagiarism, and use of AI.
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