The London Standard, branded online as The Standard and formerly known as the Evening Standard, is a long-established regional newspaper published weekly on Thursdays and distributed free of charge in
Unloading the Evening Standard at Chancery Lane Station, November 2014
London Evening Standard dispensers at Sainsbury's supermarket, 2017
Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on 7 July 2005, at Waterloo station
Evening Standard cover on 19 March 2020 using its final design before the rebranding
Alexander Lebedev
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Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev is a Russian businessman, and has been referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. Until 1992, he was an officer in the First Chief Directorate of the Soviet Union′s KG
The Standard (London newspaper)
…2006 by The London Paper. The Standard pridefully branded itself as the "voice of London". In October 2009, after being bought by Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev, the paper ended a 180-year history of paid circulation and multiple editions every day, and became a free newspaper publishing a single print edition…
Lebedev in 2019
Lebedev with Russian President Vladimir Putin on 7 May 2002