Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev says he is ready to face property tycoon Sergei Polonsky in a London court after punching him on Russian television. Lebedev, owner of the Independent and Evening Standard, told the Guardian that Polonsky had provoked him for several hours before and during the taping of a talkshow on NTV in September, [...]
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November 1, 2011
October 7, 2011
New Politkovskaya charges expected
Russian investigators have marked the fifth anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya‘s murder by announcing that they will file new charges against previously arrested suspects. Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, a native of Chechnya, is accused of organising the shooting of the investigative journalist who was critical of Vladimir Putin‘s administration. New charges against the suspected hitman, Rustam Makhmudov, and [...]
October 4, 2011
Alexander Lebedev faces charges of hooliganism over chatshow punch-up
Alexander Lebedev hits Sergei Polonsky on a Russian TV show Link to this video Russian prosecutors have launched a criminal case against the media tycoon Alexander Lebedev on charges of hooliganism for punching a fellow billionaire on a television programme. Lebedev was being investigated for hooliganism after a preliminary investigation found that the incident “brought [...]
September 24, 2011
Alexander Lebedev reveals his street fighting past after YouTube brawl
It has become a video sensation: the moment when Alexander Lebedev punched a fellow businessman live on Russian TV. Ever since Lebedev – the billionaire owner of the Evening Standard and Independent – floored tycoon Sergei Polonsky, speculation has swirled: where did Lebedev learn his pugilistic skills? The KGB, perhaps? And why did he swing [...]
September 19, 2011
Was Alexander Lebedev’s punch misguided? | Open thread
John Prescott jabbed an egg hurler, Wendi Deng slapped a foam pie thrower and now the Russian billionaire owner of the Independent and Evening Standard, Alexander Lebedev, has landed a hook on a fellow talkshow guest. Lebedev, who swung for Russian real estate developer Sergei Polonsky after he expressed a “desire to give [him] a [...]
September 19, 2011
With one punch Lebedev becomes a real media mogul…
I’ve no idea about the ins and outs of the squabble between newspaper publisher Alexander Lebedev and another Russian tycoon, Sergei Polonsky. But Lebedev’s televised assault on Polonsky (see above) does much to counter the prevailing view of him as a rather earnest and grey figure. In a couple of seconds of spontaneous action Lebedev [...]
September 19, 2011
Alexander Lebedev in Russian TV fight
Alexander Lebedev, owner of the Independent and the London Evening Standard, strikes Russian property tycoon Sergei Polonsky on a TV chat show after feeling insulted. Both men appeared as guests on the show about the global financial crisis that was being recorded in Moscow for the NTV channel
September 19, 2011
I’m a celebrity, knock me out – in pictures
The clash between Russian oligarchs Alexander Lebedev and Sergei Polonsky is the latest of many to be caught on camera
September 18, 2011
Russian billionaires come to blows
In his skinny jeans and basketball boots, he may appear to be the model of a modern media mogul. But Alexander Lebedev, the billionaire owner of the Independent and London Evening Standard, has shown a flash of his old KGB steel after punching a businessman in the face during a Russian television show. Lebedev, 51, [...]
September 18, 2011
Alexander Lebedev in Russian TV punch-up
The Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev may pride himself on not interfering with the editorial policy of his UK newspapers, the Independent and Evening Standard, but there was no sign of such restraint when he took exception to the words of a fellow guest on Russian television. Clad in very tight grey jeans, Lebedev showed a [...]