Vladimir Litvinenko

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 plagiarism 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. According to his daughter Olga, Vladimir Litvinenko himself wrote the dissertation. In 2022, he signed the Address of the Russian Union of Rectors, which called to support Putin in his invasion of Ukraine. ==Business career==

Litvinenko owns nearly 15% of PhosAgro, a phosphate mining company The mine had been at one time partly owned by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. ==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. 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. ==References==