The son of oligarch Alexander Lebedev about Russians in London: “These people are from the very bottom. Legal wife of Alexander Lebedev

Banker, billionaire, president of the media holding "New Media"

Banker, billionaire, owner of the National Reserve Corporation, president of the National Investment Council, president of the New Media media holding. Deputy of the Slobodskaya District Duma for the Ilyinsky multi-mandate district No. 5 (Kirov region). In the past, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation: in the elections in 2003 he headed the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc, in the same year he left the bloc and joined the United Russia faction, and in 2006 he left it and became an independent deputy , collaborated with the A Just Russia party. Former KGB officer of the USSR. Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1959. In 1977, he entered the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO, and in 1982 he was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he began writing his PhD thesis (defended in October 2000). Soon he was asked to go to work at the First Main Directorate of the KGB (foreign intelligence), and from 1987 to 1991 Lebedev worked at the USSR Embassy in London.

In 1991, Lebedev retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel and went into business. In 1993, he created and headed the Russian Investment and Financial Company. In 1995, RIFK acquired the National Reserve Bank. In 1999, together with the heads of large Russian companies and banks, Lebedev initiated the creation of the National Investment Council.

In 2003, Lebedev defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Financial globalization in the context of problems of global, regional and national (Russian) development.”

In December 2003, Lebedev ran for mayor of Moscow and won 12.35 percent of the vote, which observers considered a bid for a more serious result in the capital's mayoral elections in 2007. During the elections, Lebedev was supported by the Rodina bloc. At the same time, he took part in the parliamentary elections, heading the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc, and became a deputy of the State Duma. After his election, he left the post of president and chairman of the board of the National Reserve Bank. Already on December 20, deputy Lebedev left the Rodina bloc and joined the Duma faction of the United Russia party.

In 2003-2004, Lebedev, as the owner of 30 percent of the shares of Aeroflot, was mentioned in the media in connection with the holding of a tender to transfer control of Sheremetyevo International Airport. During the presidential elections in Ukraine at the end of 2004, Lebedev supported the “orange”, counting on preferences for his Ukrainian business, but later repeatedly stated that the new Ukrainian government was putting pressure on him and his business partners. In June 2006, Lebedev intervened in the conflict between residents of the Yuzhnoye Butovo microdistrict and the Moscow authorities, who attempted, on the basis of a court decision, to forcibly relocate residents from their private homes.

In 2007, Lebedev joined the A Just Russia party, led by Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. It was reported that he would become number one on the Moscow party list in the State Duma elections, but later information appeared that the businessman, at the request of the Kremlin, would not do this. Indeed, on September 23, 2007, the A Just Russia congress approved the list of candidates for the upcoming State Duma elections, and Lebedev was not on it. In April 2008, Lebedev was removed from the leadership.

At the beginning of June 2008, the New Media media holding was registered on the basis of the Novaya Gazeta publication owned by Lebedev. It was planned that the new holding would include other media assets of the entrepreneur: the Moscow Correspondent newspaper and two radio frequencies. Lebedev took over as president of the new structure. In 2009-2010, he became the owner of the famous British publications Evening Standard and The Independent.

In April 2009, Lebedev was registered as a candidate in the mayoral elections of Sochi. However, in the same month, the Central District Court of Sochi declared the election commission’s decision to register the businessman illegal.

According to media estimates, by 2006, the total assets of Lebedev's National Reserve Corporation (NRC) exceeded two billion dollars. The main asset of the corporation was called the National Reserve Bank, which has the second largest block of shares after the state in the Aeroflot airline (about 30 percent) and the leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co. (IFK, 44 percent). In addition to the bank, Lebedev's NRK included the National Meat Company, the National Mortgage Company, the NRB Finance company and a number of construction organizations. In January 2010, Aeroflot's board of directors approved the purchase of 25.8 percent of the company's shares from NRK. At the same time, an agreement was reached that NRC would sell 26 percent of IFC shares to VEB. The first part of the deal - the purchase of 6.3 percent of shares by Aeroflot Finance - was closed at the end of February 2010. However, the second one never took place: the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation opposed VEB’s purchase of IFC shares, after which Lebedev refused to further sell the shares. In December of the same year, during the placement, the businessman sold 4 of his remaining 19 percent shares in Aeroflot.

In February 2011, Lebedev sold 15 percent of NRB shares to his son Evgeniy. The transaction amount was not disclosed.

In March of the same year, Lebedev as a candidate took part in the elections to the Slobodskaya District Duma of the Kirov Region in the Ilyinsky four-mandate district No. 5. Having received just under 40 percent of the vote, he became a deputy of the district duma that same month.

In 2008, Russian Forbes placed Lebedev in 39th place in the ranking of the richest Russians, with his fortune estimated at $3.1 billion.

Lebedev is divorced and has two sons. The entrepreneur enjoys football and swimming.

Banker, billionaire, owner of the National Reserve Corporation, president of the National Investment Council, president of the New Media media holding. In 2003, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation, heading the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc. Following this, he left the bloc and joined the United Russia faction, and in 2006 he left it and became an independent deputy, collaborating with the A Just Russia party. In 2003 he ran for mayor of Moscow. Former KGB officer of the USSR. Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1959. Father - Evgeniy Nikolaevich - professor at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical University, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Mother - Maria Sergeevna - worked as a teacher on Sakhalin, then taught English at Moscow universities. Lebedev studied at a special school with in-depth study of the English language. According to some reports, Alexander Mamut studied in the same class with Lebedev, who later, like Lebedev, became a major entrepreneur.

In 1977, Lebedev entered the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO. In 1982, upon completion of his studies, Lebedev was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1990 - Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences), where he began writing his Ph.D. thesis. However, he was soon asked to go to work in the First Main Directorate of the KGB (foreign intelligence). From 1987 to 1991, Lebedev worked in London under the cover of a diplomatic mission. According to media reports, in London Lebedev met his future business partners - diplomats Andrei Kostin and Anatoly Danilitsky.

In 1991, Lebedev retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel and went into business. In 1992, he represented the Swiss bank "Company Financier Tradition" in Russia and the CIS countries. In 1993, he created and headed the Russian Investment and Financial Company (RIFK). In 1995, RIFK acquired the National Reserve Bank (NRB), whose founders included Gazprom.

In 1999, together with the heads of large Russian companies and banks, Lebedev initiated the creation of the National Investment Council (NIC), whose main task was to contribute to the formation of a favorable investment climate in Russia. In March 2001, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was called in the media one of the founders of the organization, agreed to become a co-chairman of the NIS. Subsequently, he appeared in the press as the chairman of its board of trustees, and Lebedev - first as chairman, and later as president of NIS.

In October 2000, Lebedev defended his candidate's dissertation on the topic "Problems of Russia's External Debt" at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Three years later, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Financial globalization in the context of problems of global, regional and national (Russian) development”, becoming a Doctor of Economic Sciences.

In December 2003, Lebedev ran for mayor of Moscow and received 12.35 percent of the vote. Yuri Luzhkov won the elections with 74.82 percent of the votes. During the elections, Lebedev was supported by the Rodina bloc, but he nominated himself as a candidate for mayor in order to, in his words, “not politicize” the electoral process.

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During the election campaign, Lebedev promised, if elected, to double the income of the city treasury and all Muscovites within 500 days after taking office as mayor. Lebedev intended to implement his program through more efficient management of city property, as well as the demonopolization of the capital's construction complex.

At the same time, Lebedev stated that for him, winning the elections is not an end in itself. He noted that he considered it more important to declare an alternative program for the development of the city. A number of media outlets suggested that Lebedev’s election campaign in 2003 was just a way for him to make a name for himself in politics and preparation for a more serious fight for the post of mayor in 2007, when the situation would change dramatically due to the absence of Luzhkov himself among the future candidates (according to the law, he will no longer be able to participate in elections).

The same sources claimed that during the mayoral elections, Lebedev was supported by representatives of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation - allegedly in this way the Kremlin wanted to show that in the future it sees its own person as the leader of Moscow.

During his election campaign, Lebedev repeatedly noted that his “media” capabilities are significantly inferior to those of his main rival, the current mayor Luzhkov. In particular, Lebedev argued that Luzhkov has his own television channel, his own newspapers and his own radio. When Lebedev announced his withdrawal from the election campaign on November 28, he explained this precisely by the inequality of candidates in access to the media. However, the very next day, after consultations with the leadership of the Rodina bloc, Lebedev changed his decision and continued to participate in the elections.

Then, in December 2003, Lebedev took part in the parliamentary elections, heading the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc. Following the election results, Lebedev was elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation. After winning the election, Lebedev, according to his official biography, left the post of president, chairman of the board of the National Reserve Bank and his other posts in business, concentrating on his work as a deputy.

However, already on December 20, 2003, deputy Lebedev left the Rodina bloc and joined the Duma faction of the United Russia party. The reason for this decision, according to Lebedev, was his disagreement with some extremist ideas of one of the leaders of Rodina. Lebedev did not specify which leader he meant.

In the State Duma of the fourth convocation, Lebedev took the positions of deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots, coordinator of the inter-factional deputy association "Capital", coordinator of the group for relations with the Parliament of Ukraine, member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

On December 5, 2003, during the campaigns for the election of the mayor of Moscow and State Duma deputies, Lebedev announced the decision to consolidate his business - to unite under the auspices of the National Reserve Corporation (NRC) assets controlled by him and his partners worth more than $2.2 billion. At the same time, Lebedev himself became the owner of 60 percent of NRC shares.

In 2003-2004, Lebedev was a participant in events related to the tender for the transfer to management of Sheremetyevo International Airport (SIA). In the spring of 2003, Lebedev's National Reserve Bank acquired 30 percent of Aeroflot shares (51.17 percent of the company's shares remained with the state). In October, the Russian government decided to hold a competition for the management of Sheremetyevo Airport, which was actively used by Aeroflot. Lebedev categorically objected to its holding, saying that “the airport should be managed by the state together with Aeroflot.” In January 2004, Alfa-Sheremetyevo, a subsidiary of Alfa Group, won the tender to select a management company for SIA, and the losing side turned out to be the owners of Aeroflot, including Lebedev. In June 2004, the Russian government decided to involve Aeroflot in developing a concept for the development of Sheremetyevo. In fact, this meant a revision of the results of the competition. According to media reports, the reason for this decision was a statement by representatives of Aeroflot "about the intention to transfer all airline flights from Sheremetyevo to Domodedovo and Vnukovo in the event that Aeroflot is not allowed to manage the airport.

At the end of 2004, Lebedev supported the “orange” during the presidential elections in Ukraine. A number of analysts substantiated Lebedev’s position by the fact that the latter was involved in Ukrainian business and expected to receive support from the new government for his commercial projects, which he began back in 1995 by purchasing the NRB-Ukraine bank and the Eurasian Insurance Alliance company. In addition, in the late 90s, Lebedev actively worked in the Ukrainian real estate market, investing about $100 million in it.

However, in 2005-2006, Lebedev repeatedly stated that the new Ukrainian government was putting pressure on him and his business partners. In particular, the Ukrainian authorities initiated a trial to review the results of the privatization of the Kyiv hotel "Ukraine" owned by Lebedev. In April 2009, Lebedev won: the Economic Court of Kyiv awarded ownership of the hotel to the Commercial Company, a member of the NRC, and to the Hotel Ukraine enterprise.

On June 7, 2006, at the World Newspaper Congress in Moscow, it was announced that Lebedev and ex-USSR President Gorbachev had purchased 49 percent of the shares of Novaya Gazeta. According to media reports, 39 percent of the shares went to Lebedev, 10 percent to Gorbachev. The remaining 51 percent of the shares remained with the publication staff.

In June 2006, Lebedev intervened in the conflict between residents of the Yuzhnoye Butovo microdistrict and the Moscow authorities, who attempted, on the basis of a court decision, to forcibly relocate residents from their private homes. Lebedev stated that he took a commercial lease of one of the houses intended for demolition. Thus, according to Lebedev, parliamentary immunity applies to this premises. Some media outlets linked Lebedev’s activism during the conflict in South Butovo with the long-standing confrontation between him and Luzhkov, dating back to the Moscow mayoral elections in 2003.

In June 2006, Lebedev announced his entry into Mironov’s party, in connection with which he announced his imminent departure from the United Russia faction and transition to the Duma faction A Just Russia. Some time later, information appeared in the press that the businessman, at the request of the Kremlin, would not head the Moscow party list in the elections. In September 2007, reports appeared about a conflict between Lebedev and the leader of the A Just Russia - Rodina faction, Alexander Babakov, who told New Region correspondents: “Lebedev is in United Russia, do you know about this?” Commenting on this statement, Lebedev noted that he is an independent deputy: “I left the United Russia faction, but did not join the Just Russia faction because it was too weak.” Lebedev especially emphasized that he is not going to leave anywhere and will definitely will participate in the election campaign."

In 2007, observers started talking about Lebedev’s connection with the A Just Russia party, headed by the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote in the spring of that year that Lebedev might actually exercise leadership of the Moscow branch of A Just Russia. The publication cited the appointment as head of the capital branch of the party of a fellow banker and State Duma deputy Andrei Samoshin as confirmation of this. NG experts believed that Lebedev would become the person who would sponsor the “Right Russia” during the election campaign. In May 2007, it became known that Lebedev would become number one on the Moscow list of A Just Russia in the upcoming State Duma elections. However, party leader Mironov said that the final decision will be made at the pre-election congress of A Just Russia.

On September 23, 2007, the A Just Russia congress approved the list of candidates for the upcoming State Duma elections, but Lebedev was not on it. During the congress, he himself announced that he was ready to refuse to participate in parliamentary elections in order to engage in charitable activities and party work. “I will integrate deeper into the party,” he said.

The media wrote about Lebedev as a famous blogger. In his LJ “Capitalist-idealist” he noted: “This is not an election project. And not an illegitimate child of PR. This is precisely what is above all commercialism, because it does not cost me anything, not a cent, not a penny - only emotional experiences and nervous cells". However, on the pages of his LiveJournal one could find many comments regarding the activities of the Moscow government and the political situation in the country as a whole. In August 2007, a member of the United Russia faction, Vladimir Medinsky, sued Lebedev for “severe moral suffering” caused to him by publications on the blog and on the Kommersant website (meaning accusations of lobbying for the gambling business). Medinsky demanded that Lebedev publish a refutation, and that the court demand compensation in the amount of 100 million rubles. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for August 13, 2007 (the results were not reported). However, it is known that the conflict has not subsided: on August 21, an online debate between Medinsky and Lebedev took place on the Kommersant website. In June 2008, the Basmanny Court of Moscow ordered Lebedev to compensate for moral damages to Medinsky and to publish a refutation of his statements that were made on the entrepreneur’s LiveJournal. At the same time, despite the fact that Medinsky demanded to recover 100 million rubles from the defendant, the court ordered Lebedev to pay the plaintiff 30 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage caused.

In September 2007, during the press conference “Problems of urban planning policy in Moscow,” Lebedev spoke as one of the members of the inter-factional deputy association “Our Capital.” It was reported that its parliamentary participants decided to create an alternative “shadow government” of the capital, which will independently identify and solve the problems of Muscovites, since, in their opinion, the main motive of the existing city management system is making a profit. At the same time, Lebedev noted that he does not expect that the Moscow government will treat their initiative well. “We will most likely be called traitors,” he said.

In 2007, after leaving the Duma, as president of the National Investment Council, Lebedev appeared in reports about the presentation of the International Institute for Comparative Studies of Political Cultures (MISIPC), among the founders of which was NIS, as well as the Gorbachev Foundation, the Independent Institute of Elections, the Institute of Economics RAS, Institute of Europe RAS, Institute of USA and Canada RAS and other organizations. Vedomosti noted that NIS, the Gorbachev Foundation and the Independent Institute of Elections have been engaged in a project to develop a national system for assessing democratic procedures since the beginning of 2007. At the presentation, Lebedev himself said that as a result of the elections, “one and a half centimeters of research” had appeared. In January 2008, Lebedev was named as one of the authors (editors) of a report prepared by the Russian Institute for National Monitoring of Democratic Procedures. The co-authors of this study were former USSR President Gorbachev and the head of the board of directors of the Independent Election Institute, Alexander Ivanchenko. The document noted that in 2005-2007, the basic principles of electoral legislation in the country “were completely or partially revised,” as a result of which passive electoral law (the right to be elected) in Russia became more limited. According to the authors of the report, during the election campaign to the State Duma of the fifth convocation, there were “serious deviations from the principle of free elections, which were expressed in the coercion of some voters to participate in the elections, as well as in individual cases of attempts to control the will of voters.” However, in general, they noted, “these elections largely satisfy the proclaimed principles of universal, equal and direct suffrage.”

In the spring of 2008, Lebedev was mentioned in the media in connection with the material published on April 11 in the daily newspaper Moscow Correspondent, which he owns, about the possible wedding of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former gymnast, State Duma deputy Alina Kabaeva. Putin denied this information and said: “I have always had a bad attitude towards those who, with some kind of flu-like nose and with their erotic fantasies, meddle in someone else’s life.” After this, a number of publications disseminated information that for financial reasons the newspaper was closed by Lebedev. Subsequently, it turned out that this was not the case - the publication of the newspaper was suspended and, as reported, should be resumed, but the concept of the publication would change. The editor-in-chief of Moscow Correspondent resigned - as reported, of his own free will.

The story of the scandalous publication developed: the press started talking about it as the forerunner of the end of Lebedev’s political career. The reason for this was the approval at the congress of the A Just Russia party of a new charter and leadership, from which Lebedev was removed. Mironov, who was re-elected chairman of the party, said that there should be no “random fellow travelers” in the ranks of the party, one of which, according to him, is Lebedev. Mironov decided that their joint activity had come to its logical conclusion, and also expressed dissatisfaction with the publication about the upcoming wedding of Putin and Kabaeva: “Publishing such articles about the president is vile!” At the same time, Lebedev is confident that he will be the party's only random fellow traveler. According to the businessman, he never hid the fact that he was not a member of any party, but he collaborated with Our Home Russia, United Russia, and A Just Russia when interests coincided. He added that he accepted Gorbachev's offer to become co-chairman of the Socialist Party, which he had recently registered.

In March 2008, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, announced that Gorbachev and Lebedev suggested that he create a holding company based on the publication, “which would include several newspapers, radio stations, Internet resources, and possibly its own sociological service.” In April of the same year, the media reported that the shareholders of Novaya Gazeta had decided to create a media holding, which would include Novaya Gazeta and the newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent (published since September 2007). It was reported that the holding would subsequently expand and be replenished with other media, including a glossy magazine “for smart people” and a number of Internet resources. At the beginning of June 2008, the media holding was registered. It was called "New Media". Lebedev took over as president of the new structure.

In July 2008, Kommersant, citing a source close to Lebedev, reported that his National Reserve Corporation (NRK) was buying 76 percent of the Oger group - the sixth largest tour operator in Germany (the main direction is Turkey, as well as tours to Cuba, in Thailand, Tunisia and Dominican Republic). According to experts, the transaction amount could be 100-125 million euros. Market participants noted that the purchase of a tour operator would help Lebedev “load the airlines owned by NRK” - Red Wings, 100 percent owned by the corporation, and the German Blue Wings (NRK owns 49 percent of the shares).

In October 2008, the Basmanny Court of Moscow upheld Luzhkov's claim against GQ magazine and businessman Alexander Lebedev for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The reason for the lawsuit was Lebedev’s interview with a magazine, in which he called “Yu.M. Luzhkov” the source of a rumor published by the newspaper “Moscow Correspondent” about Putin’s alleged upcoming marriage to Kabaeva. Lebedev stated that by “Yu.M. Luzhkov” he did not mean the mayor of Moscow, and after the court decision he filed an appeal.

In January 2009, information appeared in the media that Lebedev was negotiating the purchase of the influential British publication Evening Standard, but such reports were followed by denials. On January 16, the acquisition of the newspaper by a Russian entrepreneur was spoken of as a fait accompli, and The Times also reported the estimated cost of the transaction. The only paid newspaper in London was going to be sold for 1 pound sterling (approximately 48 rubles), since the publication of the newspaper brought multimillion-dollar losses to its owners. The deal took place on January 21, 2009 and became, according to The Guardian, a “watershed moment” for the British print industry - the Evening Standard became the first major publication to be acquired by a Russian. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Lebedev said he was giving the Evening Standard three years to start making a profit. Otherwise, the newspaper will be closed, since in the conditions of falling markets the entrepreneur was not able to support the unprofitable newspaper for longer than this period.

In mid-March 2009, Lebedev announced that he was going to run for the post of mayor of Sochi and promised voters to reduce the bureaucracy “by more than half” and also to develop infrastructure. Lebedev officially submitted documents to the local election commission on March 24, 2009. On April 1 of the same year, he was registered as one of the contenders for the position of mayor of the future capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics. However, in the same month, Vladimir Trukhanovsky, another candidate for the post of mayor of Sochi, filed a lawsuit to invalidate the decision of the election commission to register Lebedev. He motivated his demand by the fact that errors were allegedly made in Lebedev’s registration. Soon after this, by decision of the court of the Central District of Sochi, the registration of the entrepreneur was canceled.

In January 2010, the board of directors of Aeroflot approved the purchase of 25.8 percent of the company's shares from NRK Lebedev. According to Kommersant newspaper sources close to the board of directors of Aeroflot, the transaction amount was supposed to be $400 million. Lebedev himself clarified that one of the conditions of this deal was “reinvestment of the proceeds from the sale of NRC packages into the Russian assets of the corporation” - the Red Wings airline, the National Land Company and the National Housing Corporation. The sale of securities was supposed to be carried out in two transactions with Aeroflot Finance. The first of them - the repurchase of 6.3 percent of shares - was closed at the end of February 2010; its details and the amount of the transaction were not reported, but it was noted that Lebedev was ultimately supposed to sell the entire package for 11.07 billion rubles. In March of the same year, it became known that Lebedev lost 3.33 billion rubles on the sale of Aeroflot shares, selling the air carrier's shares at a 28 percent discount to the market price. At the same time, as Vedomosti emphasized, the businessman sold Aeroflot shares for almost three times more than he bought.

In March 2010, it became known that Lebedev had made a deal to purchase the British newspaper The Independent and its Sunday version, The Independent on Sunday, which were suffering losses. On March 25, the transfer of two publications to the company Independent Print Limited, owned by the Lebedev family, was officially announced. The company was headed by Lebedev’s son Evgeniy, and the entrepreneur himself became a member of its board of directors.

Back in December 2006, it became known about Lebedev’s intention to create his own oil business, in connection with which he created the NRK-Oil company. However, in April 2009, Lebedev put his oil assets up for sale, explaining this by strong competition, significant state involvement in the industry and the futility of small oil businesses in Russia. Almost a year later, in early April 2010, two of the four oil companies controlled by NRK-Oil were acquired by the TNK-BP corporation; the amount of this transaction was estimated by experts at 60-70 million dollars.

Since 2009, the German airline Blue Wings, owned by Lebedev, has been in distress. In the spring of 2009, due to economic problems, the German authorities refused to renew the company's license, but after Lebedev provided 10 billion euros to save it, flights were still allowed. However, in January 2010, Blue Wings stopped flights again. The company's financial problems led to the fact that in May 2010, seven of its airliners were sold at auction, and Lebedev admitted that he would not be able to restore its activities.

According to Russian Forbes magazine, Lebedev's fortune by 2006 was estimated at $3.7 billion. According to the magazine, Lebedev took twenty-third place in the list of the richest people in Russia. By 2006, the total assets of Lebedev's National Reserve Corporation exceeded $2 billion. The main asset of the NRC is the National Reserve Bank, which has the second largest stake after the state in the Aeroflot airline (about 30 percent) and the leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co. (44 percent), which in turn owned a controlling stake (56 percent). percent) "Voronezh Joint-Stock Aircraft Manufacturing Company". In addition to the bank, the NRC included: “National Meat Company”, “National Mortgage Company”, “NRB Finance” company and a number of construction organizations. In 2008, Russian Forbes placed Lebedev in 39th place. His fortune was estimated at $3.1 billion.

It was noted that Lebedev is actively involved in charitable activities. On his initiative, a “Charitable Reserve Fund” was created.

According to some media reports, Lebedev maintains friendly relations with Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev.

Lebedev was awarded the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church and the UNESCO Medal "Dialogue of Cultures".

Lebedev is officially divorced. He divorced his first wife Natalya in 1998, their son Evgeniy worked as chief executive officer of the Evening Standard as of early 2010; in the same year he took over the company that published The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers. In addition to Evgeny, Lebedev has a son, Nikita, from model Elena Perminova. Lebedev enjoys football and swimming.

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Natalya Lebedeva (Sokolova) was born in 1959 into an intelligent family.

Father - Vladimir Evgenievich Sokolov - Russian and Soviet biologist, zoologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician-Secretary of the Department of General Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Director of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution named after A.N. Severtsova.

Mother - Svetlana Mikhailovna Sokolova, née Stepanova (born October 3, 1929), candidate of biological sciences, senior researcher at the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, daughter of an employee of the science department of the CPSU Central Committee M. Stepanov.

Natalya followed in her mother's footsteps and received an education as a microbiologist. She married an employee of the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Alexander Lebedev. On May 8, 1980, their son Evgeniy was born.

Alexander got a job at the Soviet embassy in London and moved to the UK with his family. Evgeniy was eight years old and went to a city school.

Natalia and Alexander raised a wonderful son.

Zhenya is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and owner of the Evening Standard Ltd publishing house. Under his leadership Evening Standard became the first freely distributed large-circulation newspaper in Britain, with a circulation of 600,000 copies.

Evgeniy has not yet pleased his mother with grandchildren; he is not married. But he has broken many hearts. This includes Geri Halliwell, Gillian Anderson, and Elizabeth Hurley, and there are countless models.

Everything changed 12 years ago.

Alexander met love that changed his life. She is a supermodel from Siberia, a beauty with long legs, who got into trouble. Elena Perminova immediately captivated Alexander with her intelligence, erudition, ability to support any conversation, both at social events and at business parties, and of course her external data played an important role.

Agree, it was impossible to resist such beauty.

The bad man with whom 17-year-old Lena was in love forced her to sell illegal drugs. Evil and envious gossips now remind her of this at every opportunity. But she didn’t understand anything then!!! She thought she was giving out ascorbic acid at the club, how can you!!!

Alexander helped Elena restore justice, and she was given a suspended sentence.

Many years have passed since then. Elena became the main Russian fashionista. She gave birth to three beautiful children. And now he has been living in friendship with Alexander for 12 years.

Natalya, as a very wise and intelligent woman, stepped aside. Now he lives well in Europe, doing science.

And the fact that embittered gossips are gossiping about the fact that Alexander still has not divorced Natalya. So this is out of envy of Lena’s money!!! Still, they see on her Instagram what luxurious gifts he gives her, mansions, objects of art, jewelry. Alexander is just a busy businessman. And he never got around to filing a divorce. In 2 years he will retire, free time will appear, and you and I will still see a gorgeous wedding that will thunder throughout Russia!!! What about Russia, Europe!!!

Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev
Occupation: entrepreneur
Date of birth: December 16, 1959
Place of birth: Moscow, USSR
Citizenship: Russia

Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev(b. December 16, 1959 in Moscow, USSR) - Russian entrepreneur. Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC National Reserve Corporation, former deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Deputy of the Sloboda District Duma (since 2011). Former intelligence officer, as well as owner of the British newspapers Independent and Evening Standard.

Father Alexandra Lebedeva, Evgeniy Nikolaevich, - professor, doctor of sciences, after graduating from Moscow Higher Technical University named after. Bauman devoted his entire life to teaching. In his youth, he was professionally involved in sports, played for the USSR national water polo team, was awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports”, and was friends with the famous football player Lev Yashin.
Mother Alexandra Lebedeva, Maria Sergeevna, after graduating from a pedagogical institute in Moscow, she worked as a rural teacher on Sakhalin. Teacher of English at MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Education of Alexander Lebedev

Alexander Lebedev He successfully graduated from English special school No. 17 and back in 1977 he entered the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO, where his mother worked, and studied the global monetary and financial system, paying special attention to the problems of international debt obligations.
Alexander Lebedev studied in the eighth English-Spanish group of the monetary and financial department of the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO. In 1982 he graduated from MGIMO with a degree in international economic relations.
In the early 1980s Alexander Lebedev began writing his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Debt problems and challenges of globalization.”
In 1984 Alexander Lebedev Graduated from the Red Banner Institute of the KGB of the USSR.
In 2000 Alexander Lebedev defended his Ph.D. dissertation.
In 2003 Alexander Lebedev defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Financial globalization in the context of problems of global, regional and national (Russian) development.” Thus, Alexander Lebedev became a Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Activities of Alexander Lebedev in 1979-1992

* 1979-1991 Alexander Lebedev- member of the CPSU
* 1982-1983 Alexander Lebedev- worked at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
* 1983-1992 Alexander Lebedev- worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held various diplomatic posts in Russian embassies. He worked in the Office of Information, the Office of International Economic Relations, and the 2nd European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dealing, in particular, with issues of preventing capital flight abroad.
* 1987 - move to London. He worked at the Soviet embassy in Great Britain, where he made close acquaintance with his future partner, and then the head of Vnesheconombank and Vneshtorgbank, at that time the embassy's caretaker, Andrei Kostin.
* 1987-1992 - went to work at the First Main Directorate of the KGB (foreign intelligence). Under the guise of a diplomatic mission, he worked in London at the USSR Embassy in the positions of attaché (1987-1988), third secretary (1988-90), second secretary of the embassy (1990-92).
* 1991 Alexander Lebedev- retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel and went into commerce (in particular, banking business).

Activities of Alexander Lebedev in 1993-2011

* 1993 - Alexander Lebedev together with Andrey Kostin, he founded the Russian Investment and Financial Company JSC RIFK, where he took the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors.
* 1993 - RIFK, with management rights, became part of the Imperial Bank, and itself Alexander Lebedev became head of the bank's foreign investment department.
* 1995-2004 Alexander Lebedev- President and General Director of the National Reserve Bank (JSC), whose largest shareholder was Gazprom.
* 1996 - took part in the election campaign of Boris Yeltsin.
* 1997, April - at the IV congress of the movement “Our Home is Russia” (NDR) by Viktor Chernomyrdin Alexander Lebedev was elected a member of the political council of the NDR.
* 1997, August - Alexander Lebedev was elected deputy chairman of the Ecological Party "Kedr".
* 1999 - stopped sponsoring the Ecological Party “Kedr” due to lack of prospects
* 2002 Alexander Lebedev- Member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES).
* 2003 - Alexander Lebedev took part in the elections of the mayor of Moscow as a candidate for this post and in the parliamentary elections, headed the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc. In the election of the mayor of the capital Alexander Lebedev received 12.35% of the votes. Following the parliamentary elections Alexander Lebedev was elected to the State Duma.
* 2003, December - Alexander Lebedev formally left the post of president, chairman of the board of the National Reserve Bank and his other posts in business.
*December 20, 2003 Alexander Lebedev left the Rodina bloc and joined the United Russia faction.
* 2004-2007 - deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation from EdRa
* 2004, January - 2005, March Alexander Lebedev- Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Affairs of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Relations with Compatriots.
* 2005, March 16 - Alexander Lebedev relieved of the post of co-chairman of the bilateral interparliamentary commission on cooperation between the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Council of Ukraine from the Russian part of this commission and removed from the composition of the representatives of the State Duma in the Russian part of this commission.
* 2006 - Alexander Lebedev transferred to the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation his share of shares in a Russian aircraft leasing company worth about one hundred million pounds (approximately $190 million)
* 2007, June - moved from United Russia to the A Just Russia party (prudently remaining in the Duma faction of EdRa)
* 2007, summer - Alexander Lebedev sponsors the publication of the anti-Luzhkov newspaper “Moscow Correspondent” (closed due to the financial crisis on October 30, 2008).
* 2008, January - present - Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC National Reserve Corporation.
* 2008, April Alexander Lebedev- expelled from the A Just Russia party for anti-party activities
* 2008, June - based on owned Lebedev publication of Novaya Gazeta, the media holding New Media was registered. It was planned that the new holding would include other media assets of the entrepreneur: the Moscow Correspondent newspaper and two radio frequencies. Lebedev took over as president of the new structure.
* 2009, January - acquired a controlling stake in the London newspaper The Evening Standard of the Daily Mail & General Trust holding company for a symbolic sum of 1 pound sterling.
* 2009, from April 1 to April 17 Alexander Lebedev- a candidate for the position of Head of the municipal formation of the resort city of Sochi - Head of the city of Sochi, the registration of the candidate was canceled by the election commission by court decision due to an incorrectly completed financial report during registration.
* 2009, April - Alexander Lebedev launched bankruptcy proceedings for the German discount airline Blue Wings, of which it is the largest shareholder, after which Alexander Lebedev offered his stake in Aeroflot airline for 1 euro.
* 2010, March - for a symbolic 1 pound sterling Alexander Lebedev acquired the British liberal-democratic newspaper The Independen.
* 2011 - March 14, in the elections to the Legislative Assembly, Alexander Lebedev became a deputy of the Sloboda District Duma of the Kirov Region of the fourth convocation in the Ilyinsky 4-mandate electoral district No. 5.

Personal wealth of Alexander Lebedev

Alexander Lebedev took 26th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia for 2005, compiled by Forbes magazine, with a fortune of $1.6 billion. In the world list of billionaires for the same year, he took 413th place. On the Forbes list for 2006 Alexander Lebedev rose to 23rd place with a fortune of $3.7 billion. In the lists for 2007-2009 Alexander Lebedev constantly fell in the ranking of the richest businessmen and by 2009 took 63rd place with a fortune of $600 million.

In April 2009 Alexander Lebedev wrote a letter to Forbes magazine with a request to exclude him from the list of the richest businessmen in Russia. In response, Nikolai Mazurin, deputy editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the magazine, said: “We take into account wishes in some way, but we keep all calculations honestly. That's if Alexander Evgenievich (Alexander Lebedev) believes that he has little money, then let him show the statements of his banks, his business and confirm that he has no money at all.”

* With a personal net worth of $2.1 billion in 2011 Alexander Lebedev took 45th place in the list of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia (according to Forbes magazine)
According to foreign media reports, Alexander Lebedev hides his money in Azerbaijan and Georgia. The top leadership of these states is aware of this, with the approval and participation of which money Lebedeva used to finance opposition events in Russia.
According to analysts, Alexander Lebedev secretly owns real estate in Azerbaijan and Georgia worth more than $1 billion, which is listed as belonging to the Cyprus company Broomhause Limited, part of NRC Holding.

Family of Alexander Lebedev

* First wife Alexandra Lebedeva: Natalya is the daughter of the famous Soviet biologist, academician Vladimir Sokolov. Scientist, works at Moscow University.
* Second wife Alexandra Lebedeva: Elena Perminova (b. 1986).
* Son Alexandra Lebedeva from his first marriage: Evgeniy (b. 1980) - lives in London. Has two educations. Economist. Also graduated from the Royal College of Fine Arts.

* Son Alexandra Lebedeva Nikita (06/17/2009)

Awards of Alexander Lebedev

* 1996, July 25 - gratitude for active participation in organizing and conducting the election campaign of President B. N. Yeltsin.
* 2000, October 17 - church order of St. Innocent of Moscow. Awarded for missionary work.
* UNESCO Medal “Dialogue of Cultures”. For active charity and sponsorship activities.

Books by Alexander Lebedev

Films about Alexander Lebedev

* 2007 - 2nd episode “The World’s Richest People” (Russian: “The richest people in the world”). Documentary series. - Discovery.
* 2008, May 25 - “Katala. Dirty games of the “capitalist-idealist.” Documentary. - TV Center.

One of the main characters in the latest issue of Tatler magazine was the son of Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev, Evgeniy. The author of the material described the lifestyle of the famous rake with his luxurious parties, affairs with celebrities and expensive trips with his personal photographer.

The bearded dandy has lived in London since childhood and by the age of 34 heads the serious British newspapers The Independent and Evening Standard. In England, the Lebedevs are called “Lebs”, and Evgeniy is called the “baby oligarch”.

Despite the impressive “landing force” of the Russian oligarchy, which landed on the territory of England at different times, Evgeniy shuns the company of his fellow countrymen. He is disgusted with those who made their fortune from scratch: “The main thing for them is money. And nothing more. This is the combination: big money - and no education or aesthetic guidelines. That is, taste,” Tatler magazine quotes Evgeniy.

By the way, Lebedev himself can boast of a prestigious education: the oligarch has the London School of Economics behind him, and in his desk drawer a diploma from the art school of the Christie's auction house is gathering dust. His love for art resulted in a sculpture of a boy with a penis instead of a nose, decorating his office and collection of five hundred aromatic oils and an early 19th-century bed on which, according to Eugene, George IV slept: “The Prince Regent, the future King George IV, must have had a good time frolicking on this bed.” Another quirk of the Russian rich man is living on his estate in Umbria a wolf named Boris.

When Eugene leaves England, he is accompanied by a personal photographer - by the way, half-brother of the now deceasedPrincess Diana. Every year the plane with Lebedev flies to Venice, to the grave Russian theater and artistic figure Sergei Diaghilev.

Another weakness of Lebedev Jr. is parties: the oligarch loves to party until the morning and throw luxurious receptions at home. An exceptional audience gathers for a glass or two: actress Keira Knightley, British Prime Minister David Cameron, London Mayor Boris Johnson and others.

Another Lebedev fetish is reading aloud in public. To help hone his oratory skills, Evgeniy was assigned a personal teacher of stage speech. So, together with his good friend, actor Danny Huston, Lebedev read Pinter’s play “The Return Home.”

In 2010, Eugene received British citizenship, on this occasion Elton John and his partner David Furnish threw a reception for five hundred people in the prestigious Royal Court of Justice in London. Evgeniy has an almost family-like relationship with the pop music legend: Lebedev is the godfather of Elton and David Zachary’s son.

Lebedev was credited with romances with Geri Halliwell from the Spice Girls, Gillian Anderson from The X-Files, Joely Richardson from 101 Dalmatians and Elizabeth Hurley. The oligarch’s friend, actor David Walliams, once said: “Everyone thought he was gay, but nothing like that!” Lebedev himself commented on rumors about his non-traditional sexual orientation: “If I were gay, I would announce it publicly.”