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Vladimir Stefanovich Litvinenko (, born 14 August 1955) is a Russian academic, businessman and
Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
's campaign manager. He is also rector of
Saint Petersburg Mining University Empress Catherine the Great Saint Petersburg Mining University (), is Russia's oldest technical university and one of the oldest technical colleges in Europe. It was founded on October 21, 1773, by Emperor of Russia, Empress Catherine the Gre ...
in St. Petersburg.


Career

Litvinenko has been the rector of Saint Petersburg Mining University since the 1990s. He oversaw Vladimir Putin's dissertation work in 1996, which is alleged to include significant amounts of
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and is speculated perhaps to have not even been written by Putin. Litvinenko has been criticised for either not spotting the alleged plagiarism or blatantly ignoring it. Clifford Gaddy: "Mr. Litvinenko -- who was directly involved in the dissertation, allegedly helped utinchoose the topic and was more or less the advisor for the dissertation -- is himself a member of the higher accreditation commission, which is the government-appointed body to be the watchdog over standards about degree-granting, dissertations and quality control for higher education in Russia. So it’s extra scandalous that he would be involved in this case of, at minimum, shoddiness and plagiarism, possibly something worse, which would be the literal purchase, either by money or political influence, of a dissertation by someone who didn’t actually do the work. That second point is not clear. I don’t have proof about that. All I have is proof about the plagiarism." According to his daughter Olga, Vladimir Litvinenko himself wrote the dissertation. Litvinenko was Putin's political campaign manager in 2000 and 2004. On June 11, 2014, he was given an honorary doctorate by the
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, Saxony, Germany. In 2022, he signed the Address of the Russian Union of Rectors, which called to support
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in his invasion of Ukraine.


Business career

Litvinenko owns nearly 15% of PhosAgro, a
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mining company in the Arctic. The mine had been at one time partly owned by
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. He claims that he was paid in shares for some consulting that he did in 2004 and that this "did not contradict any laws". Phosagro was floated on the
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in July 2011 and Litvinenko was listed among its new owners, as chairman. When Litvinenko owned 5%, the stock was worth about $260 million. In April 2014, he acquired a further 4.9% from Andrey Guryev, who controls the company, for $269 million.


Personal life

Litvinenko is married to Tatyana Petrovna Klovanich. Litvinenko has a daughter, Olga, born in 1983, who used to be a member of the
Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg The Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg () is the regional parliaments of Russia, regional parliament of Saint Petersburg, a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (federal cities of Russia, federal city) of Russia. It was established ...
. In May 2010 Vladimir and his wife Tatyana were looking after Olga's daughter Ester-Maria Litvinenko (born in 2009), and refused to give her back to Olga. Olga has described this as a
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and has instigated legal proceedings to get her daughter back. Olga describes her father as "the richest rector in Russia" and an " oligarch" ("самый богатый ректор России, олигарх"). When Olga fled the country in summer 2011, Vladimir reported to the police that Olga and her other son, Michael Stefan, had been kidnapped and his daughter's assets were frozen. According to Olga, all lawyers defending her were arrested and sentenced.Litvinenko: Putin wants to show Europe that Russia's law applies everywhere
telewizjarepublika.pl, November 5th 2014


References


External links


Profile of Litvinenko
Saint Petersburg Times
Olga's Daughter Facebook
in Russian {{DEFAULTSORT:Litvinenko, Vladimir 1955 births Living people People from Timashyovsky District Recipients of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Russian billionaires Russian businesspeople in real estate Academic staff of Saint Petersburg Mining University Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates