Former KGB Agent said to be Interested in UK Newspaper

Aleksandr Lebedev, a Russian billionaire and former KGB agent, is known as a gadfly in his home country, where he has sometimes dared to criticise Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. But in recent days his mischief-making seems to have spread to Britain, where he has expressed an interest in becoming a newspaper publisher. On Thursday, The Guardian reported that Lebedev was about to seal a deal for a controlling stake in The Evening Standard, a London tabloid owned by the Daily Mail & General Trust, publisher of The Daily Mail