2000年,华盛顿邮报记者大卫霍夫曼向圣彼得堡国立矿业学院申请获取一份普京长达218页的博士论文的复印件,但是被拒绝了。
In 2000 , Washington Post reporter David Hoffman asked the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute for a copy of Putins 218-page doctoral thesis but was refused .