UK: Russian tycoon sued for libel over talkshow fight

October 14th, 2011

A Russian property developer who was punched during a talkshow, is suing for libel in England after his assailant, fellow Russian tycoon  Alexander Lebedev said he deserved the beating. Sergei Polonsky is suing Lebedev, owner of the Independent and London Evening Standard for defamation following their altercation in September. Lebedev told the BBC that Polonsky had insulted him for 90 minutes. Criminal proceedings for assault have begun in Russia.

Lebedev’s standards

May 12th, 2009

Is the Evening Standard headed for the same fate as Alexander Lebedev’s under-resourced Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta? Andrei Soldatov reports
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Lebedev to sue Forbes

March 31st, 2009

Evening Standard and Novaya Gazeta owner Alexander Lebedev is to sue Forbes magazine for libel after it claimed he had lost $2.5 billlion in the financial crisis. Read more here

Just another two murders in Moscow?

January 23rd, 2009

Bill Bowring looks at the possible motives behind the murder of Anastasiya Baburova and Stanislav Markelov
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Gazeta staff ‘need guns’

January 23rd, 2009

Alexander Lebedev has announced that he has requested journalists on his Novaya Gazeta newspaper be allowed to carry guns. (more…)

Novaya Gazeta reporter shot

January 19th, 2009

Anastasiya Baburova, a reporter for Novaya Gazeta, the Russian newspaper funded by Alexander Lebedev, was seriously wounded in a shooting incident in Moscow earlier today. (more…)