“What should I explain to you? I did not grant myself the title.”
Special prosecutor Dušan Kováčik, when asked how he had managed to obtain a PhD in a specialisation that he had never even studied.
1. Oct 2012 at 0:00
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“What should I explain to you? I did not grant myself the title.”
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