The dissertation board of the Ural Federal University will consider the application for the deprivation of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky of the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences, says on his Facebook page one of the initiators of the appeal specialist on the late Renaissance, Ph.D. Ivan Babitsky.

The application will be considered on October 4.

It is noted that we are not talking about plagiarism, but "the main claim is of a substantive nature: his work is simply unscientific, and in places is absolutely absurd."