Leonid Bershidsky: Get ahead in Russia? Lie about your education
(FILE PHOTO) People ski in the park with Moscow State University in the background in Moscow on Jan. 18, 2014.
The negative selection that pushes the worst people to the top in corrupt societies is not easy to document. A group of activists concerned with the integrity of academic qualifications recently found a way to show and even quantify how this works in Russia.
