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London Evening Standard Headline (Original Post)
MelissaB
Aug 2017
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sandensea
(21,698 posts)1. NA-ZIng, I tell you!
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)2. Ironically, the Standard is owned by a Russian billionaire ...
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)3. Are you kidding?
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)4. I kid you not !
On 21 January 2009, the Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev, owners of The Independent, agreed to purchase control of the newspaper at £1 for 64 percent ownership.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Evening_Standard#Lebedev_takeover
Leith
(7,813 posts)5. One Pound?!
Yup, I checked the link. It says 1 pound. I'd have paid at least 5.
It would be fun to say that you have a controlling interest in a newspaper in a large metropolitan city like London.
OnDoutside
(19,982 posts)7. Took on a lot of debt though. I used to love the ES when I was in London.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)6. Well, he knows how to lie and cheat
and that got him in position to steal the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief job. So, that's something. I suppose. It certainly counts bigly among republicans, who have embraced the lies and the treason as their own.