[citation needed] On June 11, 2014, he was given an honorary doctorate by the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Saxony, Germany.

[6] In 2022, he signed the Address of the Russian Union of Rectors, which called to support Putin in his invasion of Ukraine.

[8] Phosagro was floated on the London Stock Exchange in July 2011 and Litvinenko was listed among its new owners, as chairman.

Litvinenko has a daughter, Olga, born in 1983,[5] who used to be a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.

Olga describes her father as "the richest rector in Russia" and an "oligarch" ("самый богатый ректор России, олигарх"[5]).