Mr Lebedev, who is keen to offer Evening Standard journalists shares in the business, told the Daily Telegraph that an initial public offering is being discussed. He also said that he is also close to forming an editorial advisory board of key global figures and Mikhail Gorbachev - who this morning visited the Evening Standard’s Kensington headquarters with Mr Lebedev to address staff – is keen to join. Mr Lebedev is still in talks with other potential board members, which include Harry Potter creator JK Rowling...

London Evening Standard journalists are unhappy over the presence of London Lite staff in morning editorial meetings. Evening Standard staff have described the arrangement as a "cuckoo in the nest", now that the 50p Evening Standard is 75.1% owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev, and only 24.9% owned by Daily Mail & General Trust, which owns London Lite...

The Evening Standard newspaper voiced confidence on Monday that it has a "golden future" under its new Russian owners, while vowing editorial independence from them. "Today is the start of a new chapter at the Evening Standard," wrote the afternoon daily's newly-installed editor Geordie Greig, under a picture of former KGB spy Alexander Lebedev addressing staff in the newsroom...

A "cheerleader" for London. A "life-affirming, aspirational newspaper". Not words you'd normally use to describe the Evening Standard, which during its years as the plaything of Associated Newspapers would regularly splash with sub-Mail shockers about illegal Moroccan migrants and the danger they pose to Londoners' house prices...

Business secretary Lord Mandelson has described the takeover of the London Evening Standard by former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev as "not ideal". He also questioned what the Evening Standard's deceased former proprietor would have made of the decision of the Daily Mail and General Trust to sell a controlling stake in the paper in January...

Businessman Alexander Lebedev, who bought London's Evening Standard newspaper in January, is planning on expanding his media holdings yet again – this time with a Moscow-based, English-language radio station. The station will target the "over 1 million potential listeners in Moscow who speak English" and give him an additional platform for criticizing Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the billionaire said Friday in comments to The Moscow Times and in an interview with the Guardian newspaper that was displayed on its web sitе...

Having concluded his deal to buy the London Evening Standard, the Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev (pictured) has asked the British media to stop talking about his former job as a Soviet spy. In an interview broadcast on ITN News yesterday, he said: "I personally would advise to use 'foreign intelligence' [rather] than KGB, which is a notorious concept in people's minds...

The Evening Standard is poised to review its media planning and buying account, currently held by Starcom. Starcom is understood to have held the account for in excess of ten years. It is unclear whether the agency will be invited to repitch. According to sources, with incoming owner Alexander Lebedev at the helm, the title expects media spend to rocket to £10m this year as it looks to arrest declining sales and take the fight to the London freesheets...

The Russian oligarch who has purchased the London Evening Standard made an appeal for the British media to refrain from branding him as a former agent for the KGB. Alexander Lebedev said the term gave a misleading and outdated impression of his background...

The London Evening Standard is exploring a new distribution model that would see copies of the 50p paper handed out for free or heavily discounted at key locations late in the evening, according to sources. Its strategy, which is being trialled with an eye to launching in March, would complement sales by Evening Standard vendors, which finish in the hour from 6pm...

The London Evening Standard has confirmed Geordie Greig will be its new editor after Russian billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev's purchase of the paper is completed at the end of the month. Veronica Wadley, Standard editor for seven years, will leave the company...

The Evening Standard has appointed Tatler editor Geordie Greig as its new editor, replacing Veronica Wadley who has been at the helm since 2002. Greig, 48, has around 20 years experience in newspapers and has previously worked for the Daily Mail, Sunday Today and The Sunday Times. He has been editor of society magazine, Tatler, since 1999...

Tatler's Geordie Greig has been nominated to become the Evening Standard's new editor, it was announced today. Mr Greig, 48, whose newspaper experience stretches to almost 20 years, has worked for the Daily Mail, Sunday Today and The Sunday Times. His first job was at the South East London and Kentish Mercury in Deptford, London...

Geordie Greig is to take over as editor of the Evening Standard when Alexander Lebedev takes control of the title in the middle of this month. The editor of the Tatler replaces Veronica Wadley, who had edited the London newspaper since 2002. Close to the Russian oligarch and his son Evgeny, Mr Greig was widely expected to take over once the purchase was agreed...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday met staff of an opposition newspaper whose reporter was murdered earlier this month, the Kremlin said...