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...She is one of a number of Russian writers — one thinks of Vladimir Sorokin, Viktor Yerofeyev, Maria Stepanova and Sergei Lebedev — who have moved to Germany, turning their backs on a homeland where criticising...
...By him he means Vladimir Putin, the man who unleashed this war....
...However in 2014, Lebedev defended Russian president Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula, telling the BBC the area had been part of Russia “for many years” and arguing that the situation...
...The answer led us to a pizza-loving lawyer and ambassador, whose notable past clients include Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law....
...Evgeny Lebedev, the Russia-born proprietor of London’s Evening Standard newspaper and son of a former KGB officer, has pleaded with Vladimir Putin to halt the military action in Ukraine....
...Lebedev has been criticised by Labour for past comments that appeared to echo arguments used by Russian president Vladimir Putin, who he has praised multiple times....
...Last week Lebedev published an open letter to Vladimir Putin in the Evening Standard in which he wrote: “As a Russian citizen I plead with you to stop Russians killing their Ukrainian brothers and sisters...
...Lebedev has already used the front page of the freesheet, which is widely distributed across the UK capital, to call on President Vladimir Putin to halt the military action in Ukraine....
...But it is his alleged ties to Vladimir Putin that have made him a belated target of the UK government....
...Two years ago, in another scandal, he made his billionaire friend Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former KGB agent, a member of the House of Lords....
...shot to prominence in the UK after buying Premier League club Chelsea in 2003, is accused by the government of having benefited financially and otherwise for decades from close links to Russian president Vladimir...
...I first raised the issue of Abramovich over a year ago when the leader of the opposition in Russian, Navalny, was imprisoned by Vladimir Putin....
...Nor can two former KGB officers who built businesses abroad — cyber-security tycoon Evgeny Kaspersky and Alexander Lebedev, The Independent and London Evening Standard owner — “get rid of a tiny but insistent...
...Another has made allegations against Vladimir Zhirinovsky, an ultranationalist who ran against President Vladimir Putin in last Sunday’s election....
...But with election officials desperate to raise turnout and show support for current president Vladimir Putin, no expense has been spared....
...There’s French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has been largely funded from Russia, dropping in on Vladimir Putin....
...Upstairs in his bathroom, he shows off a series of more intimate sketches of female nudes by Vladimir Lebedev from the 1930s, which he sees as indicative of an unexpected tolerance by the Soviet authorities...
...Other activists uploaded videos of police detaining several men and listening to Mr Lebedev explain how the alleged illegal scheme would work....
...However, the best-known Russian writer in Berlin is Vladimir Sorokin, whose bizarre, dystopian novels satirise the repression of Putin’s Russia....
...Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, called the investigation “political”. This is “part of the policy of sanctions against Russia”, said the Soviet Sport newspaper....
...At the same time Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB agent, has become less hostile to Vladimir Putin; last year he said he had stopped funding the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which was critical of the Russian...
...Mr Lebedev, whose father is the ultranationalist politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, added in comments to television: “I don’t think our fans did anything over the top, and you need to understand that, nine...
...Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian president Vladimir Putin, told reporters that the violence was “absolutely unacceptable” and called on fans to obey the law....
...The availability of better jobs means there are few Russians ready to replace the migrants who leave, said Vladimir Gimpelson, a professor at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics....
...Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, seems to think that gangsters may stay in power for as long as they wish and use whatever methods they desire. We have no reason to agree....
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