Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea football club, Alisher Usmanov has his sights on Arsenal, now another Russian oligarch wants to buy a London institution - the Evening Standard.
But attempts by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev to buy the newspaper, sister of the Daily Mail, are believed to have been vetoed by Lord Rothermere, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) chairman.
Before the credit crunch, Lebedev, a former KGB agent, was ranked 39th on Forbes's list of Russia's top 100 billionaires. His National Reserve Corporation controls more than 30% of the Russian national carrier, Aeroflot.
Lebedev, alongside former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, is part-owner of Russia's Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper that employed murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin.
In October he formed an independent political party with Gorbachev.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/09/alexander-lebedev-evening-standard
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Thursday, January 8, 2009
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