Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev to buy London Evening Standard
Alexander Lebedev: read the Evening Standard when he was a young KGB agent. Photographs: AP/Public domain
The billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is to buy London's Evening Standard tomorrow, in a dramatic move that would see him become the first Russian oligarch to own a major British newspaper, MediaGuardian.co.uk can reveal.
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