After the tragic events of the week, Aleksander Lebedev was not inclined yesterday to reflect on his purchase of 75 per cent of the UK's Evening Standard newspaper. "My thoughts are elsewhere right now," he said when reached by phone.
On Monday, a lawyer for Moscow's Novaya Gazeta - owned by Mr Lebedev - was shot dead in broad daylight in Russia's capital. A trainee journalist was also killed.
Mr Lebedev said he would have a different set of challenges with the loss-making London based paper: "My commitment is that for quite some period of time I will make sure that the losses are not hurting the newspaper."
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