Olga Litvinenko

Olga was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg{{cite web | url=https://www.rosbalt.ru/piter/2012/04/24/973803.html | title=Дочь Владимира Литвиненко: У моего отца "синдром Ивана Грозного" Подробнее |date=24 April 2012 | website=Rosbalt.ru | access-date=23 May 2021}} from 2007 to 2011.

Her father Vladimir is the rector of the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute and owns a 5% share in Phosagro, which owns a phosphate mine in the Arctic.{{cite news |last1=Kramer |first1=Andrew E. |last2=Herszenhorn |first2=David M. |date=1 March 2012 |title=Midas Touch in St. Petersburg: Friends of Putin Glow Brightly |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/world/europe/ties-to-vladimir-putin-generate-fabulous-wealth-for-a-select-few-in-russia.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&hp |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |location=Saint Petersburg |publication-place=Manhattan |access-date=23 May 2021 |url-access=subscription}} The mine had been at one time partly owned by the currently imprisoned Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Vladimir claims that he did some consulting for the company in 2004 for which he received the shares. The stock is now worth about $260,000,000 after Phosagro was floated on the London Stock Exchange in July 2011. Vladimir Putin went to the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute where he received a degree in 1996, under Vladimir Litvinenko's guidance. Putin has been accused of plagiarising large sections of his dissertation.{{cite web|url=http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2006-78-3a.cfm|title=It All Boils Down to Plagiarism|publisher=Cdi.org|date=31 March 2006|access-date=2 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806181040/http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2006-78-3a.cfm|archive-date=6 August 2009}} Clifford Gaddy: "Mr. Litvinenko -- who was directly involved in the dissertation, allegedly helped [Putin] choose 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."

In May 2010, Vladimir and his wife Tatyana were looking after Olga's daughter Ester-Maria Litvinenko (born 2009), and refused to give her back to Olga. Olga has described this as a kidnapping 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"). In summer 2011, Vladimir reported to the police that Olga and her other child, Michael Stefan, had been kidnapped and Olga's assets were subsequently frozen. Olga and her other children, Sarah, Dina and Michael Stefan, are living in London. Olga is still fighting to get her daughter Ester-Maria back.{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Matthew|date=22 May 2021|title=They kidnapped my daughter, says mother who stood up to Putin clique|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/they-kidnapped-my-daughter-says-mother-who-stood-up-to-putin-clique-gjqx6ptnr|work=The Times|language=en-GB|access-date=23 May 2021|url-access=limited}}

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• [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100014213419047 Olga's official Facebook] (in Russian)
• [https://www.litvinenko.pl Olga's site for the return of her child] (in Russian)
• [http://www.sptimesrussia.com/index.php?action_id=2&story_id=33819 Profile of Vladimir Litvinenko], Saint Petersburg Times

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