Evgeny Lebedev in Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure, Series 1, Episode 3
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Evgeny Lebedev is the London-based owner of the Independent, the Evening Standard and London Live – together ESI Media.
He is also a distinguished writer and supporter of the arts as well as patron of Space for Giants, a charity which seeks to save elephants in Africa from poaching.
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