A former KGB member turned businessman has bought the London based daily newspaper, The Evening Standard, which was founded in 1827, provoking debate in the UK media over the suitability of a man a Times source describes as "closer to those in power than he likes to admit publicly" to run a paper...

Alexander Lebedev, the new owner of the London Evening Standard, today promised to make the ailing title "more attractive" to readers and said he planned to pump "tens of millions" of pounds into the paper over the next two years. Speaking in Moscow a day after he bought a controlling stake in the paper, Lebedev said he planned to meet Standard journalists "very soon"....

Is Alexander Lebedev, a Russian billionaire and former KGB officer, a fit and proper person to own an influential British newspaper? On the face of it, there are two obvious objections. Many Russian oligarchs acquired their fortunes by murky means. Mr Lebedev also spied on Britain for a foreign power then regarded as an enemy and still viewed with suspicion...

Russian billionaire and ex-KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is buying the Evening Standard, a newspaper he used for information when he was a young spy based in London...

Aleksandr Lebedev, a Russian businessman and former KGB agent who was stationed in Britain during the Cold War, has agreed to buy a majority stake in The Evening Standard, an afternoon newspaper in London that has long been part of the fabric of the city...

The Russian suitor of a London newspaper professes to be a different kind of oligarch. Should we believe the former spy?...

Alexander Lebedev, the would-be proprietor of the Evening Standard, is Russia's most contrarian oligarch...

Former KGB man Alexander Lebedev says he will champion a free press as owner of the London Evening Standard...

The former KGB agent is now a mega-rich publisher and philanthropist who wants to do something for his country other than make more money. He would also rather like to own London's Evening Standard newspaper...

Billionaire and State Duma Deputy Alexander Lebedev acknowledged Wednesday that he was a source for a controversial Forbes Russia story about Inteko, the construction company headed by Yelena Baturina...