Borysenko, 2017 (English)

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Foreword

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This is a story about how I am trying to gain the right to publish the results of my own long-term scientific research. My results… were stolen and published by other people. Influential people. The situation is unpleasant, but in a civilized society, it is not hopeless: the guilty parties are quickly punished and branded as thieves for the rest of their scientific careers, justice prevails, and the result of the work returns to the author. In Ukraine, this does not work at all or works differently. What has happened and is still happening can be read on this website. Today marks the th day since I have been unable to publish the results of my own years-long work. My research : view   here , download here , on Researchgate here The article that plagiarized my research :  view here ; download here ; view on the journal's web-archived site here Start by reading  On Culture and Barbarism (all es...
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Why I Burned My University Diploma

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On Culture and Barbarism

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The theft of a Master's Thesis – a new peak in national plagiarism thought.  Students often plagiarize the works of their professors, but could plagiarism work in the opposite direction, with a professor stealing from a student? It turns out that for our plagiarists, nothing is impossible. Let me introduce you to the latest domestic "innovation." The  professors and thieves are Ivan Vasylovych Danyliuk , Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Doctor of Psychological Sciences, along with two of his subordinates: Inna Valeriivna Kozytska, Head of the Department of Experimental Psychology, and Serhii Oleksandrovych Shykovets, a postgraduate student:      In October 2017, I defended my master's thesis, titled “The Structure of the Cultural Syndrome ‘Individualism-Collectivism’ in Ukraine,” at the same university.  The chair of the examination committee was Ivan Danyliuk, a well-known Ukrainian ethnopsychologist. U...
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