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Is that they turned to the security services for advice. it was only on march 17 that they finally got that advice, and they met to discuss it in a committee room in parliament, and were so disturbed by it, they immediately wrote to the prime minister, saying, "we feel deeply uncomfortable about this "nomination, about evgeny�*s nomination. "will you please reconsider "or would you consider an alternative?" which they proposed. and he did indeed end up becoming a peer. that's right, he became a peer. so, two days after that report was discussed, evgeny met with borisjohnson at downing street...

To give him a peerage. second, the lebedevs, and particularly evgeny, were very proud of the work they raised, the money they raised for the raisa gorbachev cancer foundation. they had gorbachev in the evening standard newsroom. putin despises gorbachev. he sees gorbachev as the man who helped collapse the soviet union, ending russia as a great power. so, i mean, it's a strange thing to have that kind of closer relationship with gorbachev. now, third, i would draw a distinction between the father and the son. the son always struck me as a bit of a hedonist. i mean... crosstalk. i didn't go, by...

So, in russia, alexander bought a large chunk of novaya gazeta with gorbachev, and he also bought a smaller tabloid. there is some irony in that — that tabloid, in 2008, reported allegations that putin was having an affair with a young gymnast, and within a few days, the tabloid was shutdown, and it was, really, within a couple of weeks of that that alexander and evgeny started the process to buy the evening standard. so when we reported on that deal, for us, it was also about the openness of the british establishment in which we count the press, to — for money. so the then—owner of the ...

Underwhelming, i would say. he came across as a rich man's son. i didn't hang out with him. we had one meeting ahead of time. we didn't start off very well because he approached newsnight and it was very much part of his transformation of a party boy into a much more serious figure in the british public life. he approached newsnight with a suggestion for a collaboration and they called me up and asked if i wanted to do a collaboration with lebedev who had secured a incredible interview with europe's last dictator, the belarusian president. who doesn't normally do interviews. i thought it was.....

A large chunk of novaya gazeta with gorbachev, and he also bought a smaller tabloid. there is some irony in that, that tabloid in 2008 reported allegations that putin was having an affair with a young gymnast. and within a few days, the tabloid was shut down. and it was really within a couple of weeks of that, alexander and evgeny started the process to buy the evening standard. so when we reported on that deal, for us, it was also about the openness of the british establishment in which we recount the press to foreign money. so the then—owner of the newspaper, lord rothermere, was looking t...