Web-site: http://www.alebedev.org/

Alexander Lebedev (Александр Евгеньевич Лебедев) was born on Dec. 16, 1959, in Moscow.

Education: Economics, Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO), 1982.

-1992: Worked in the foreign intelligence unit of the KGB, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel

1993: Chairman of the Russian Investment-Finance Company

1996: Chairman of the National Reserve Bank

2000: Member of the board of directors of RAO Unified Energy Systems (RAO UES)

2003: Loses Moscow mayoral election to Yury Luzhkov

2003-2007: Duma deputy from the Rodina party and later the Just Russia party

2006: Spends $3.6 million to become a shareholder in Novaya Gazeta

Lebedev controls the Moskovsky Korrespondent newspaper, 49 percent of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper (with Mikhail Gorbachev), and two FM radio stations. He also owns the British publications The Evening Standard and The Independent.