A former Russian spy who bought the London Evening Standard newspaper has said he is happy to be checked for his suitability to own the title...

Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, will have to decide whether a former KGB officer is a fit and proper person to own a British newspaper after the Evening Standard was sold to Alexander Lebedev yesterday...

Alexander Lebedev takes control of the Evening Standard newspaper as he sorts out his debts back in Russia...

Alexander Lebedev was far from jubilant on Wednesday after the official announcement of his takeover of the Evening Standard...

DMGT announces today that its newspaper division, Associated Newspapers Ltd, has agreed the sale of a majority interest in the Evening Standard for a nominal sum to Evening Press Ltd, a company formed by Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev and owned by Lebedev Holdings Ltd. A new company, Evening Standard Ltd, will be established that will own the Evening Standard and in which Associated will be a minority shareholder with 24.9%...

London - Daily Mail & General Trust has agreed to sell a 75.1% stake in the Evening Standard to Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev...

Alexander Lebedev looks the last person in the world one would like to own the venerable London Evening Standard. He is a Russian oligarch – not my favourite breed of men. He worked as a young man for the KGB – not my favourite organisation...

State Duma Deputy Alexander Lebedev is transferring his stake in Russia's largest aircraft leasing company to a British-registered charity to protect the shares from government interference, Kommersant reported Wednesday...