Evening Standard

Evening Standard is a daily newspaper in London, United Kingdom covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events.

The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper distributed in the greater London metropolitan area and across southeast England. In January 2009, Daily Mail and General Trust plc sold the newspaper to Russian businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev. The Evening Standard was first published in 1827 as The Standard. On October 12, 2009, the Evening Standard became a free newspaper before that day, that newspaper had cost 50 pence.

This newspaper is owned by Alexander Lebedev.

The web site is presented in the English language.

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Russian Publisher Revives London Newspaper The Evening Standard
-- Evgeny Lebedev is getting high marks for reviving the Standard, The New York Times reported on December 19, 2010: "When the Russian investor Aleksandr Lebedev took over two British newspapers and named his son, Evgeny, to oversee them, some...

Evening Standard Announces Top 20 Charity Leaders as Part of London's 1000 Most Influential
-- December 8, 2010 -- London's 1000 most influential movers and shakers were recently announced by the Evening Standard newspaper. Amongst the categories listed were London's leading philanthropists, charity leaders and fundraisers from the worlds of business, politics,...

London Evening Standard Becomes a Free Newspaper on October 12, 2009
-- On October 2, 2009, the London Evening Standard announced that it will become a free newspaper as of Monday, October 12: "From Monday 12 October your London Evening Standard will become the first quality newspaper in the world to go free. It...

Lebedev Pays 'Nominal Sum' for Evening Standard Newspaper
-- On January 22, 2009, The Wall Street Journal confirmed that the Evening Standard, London's leading afternoon newspaper, has a new owner: Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev agreed to bail out a prominent British newspaper in a deal...

Russian Billionaire Lebedev Buys London's Evening Standard Newspaper
-- On January 14, 2009, The Guardian newspaper in London reported that a Russian billionaire is buying the Evening Standard: "The billionaire and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev is to buy London's Evening Standard tomorrow, in a dramatic move...