MOSCOW — After a week of surprising challenges to his authority, Vladimir Putin faces a new one from one of Russia’s richest and most glamorous figures — the billionaire owner of the New Jersey Nets says he will run against Putin in March’s presidential election. Mikhail Prokhorov’s announcement Monday came just hours after another Russian [...]
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December 12, 2011
November 8, 2011
Abramovich v Berezovsky: what have we learned so far?
It is Britain’s most colourful legal battle. On one side is Roman Abramovich, the billionaire owner of Chelsea FC. On the other is Boris Berezovsky, the former Kremlin insider turned political exile who is now Moscow’s biggest headache. Over the past month the two oligarchs have been slugging it out in London’s high court. Berezovsky [...]
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 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, [...]