Alexander Lebedev is, apparently, so taken with the London Evening Standard, that he wants the Novaya Gazeta – the award-winning Russian publication he owns jointly with Mikhail Gorbachev and its reporters – to follow in its footsteps. Monkey loves reading the Standard of course, but was unaware that a key part of its appeal lies in the fact that it's published every weekday. Novaya Gazeta, for the moment, comes out only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - but those familiar with his thinking say the Russian newspaper investor wants to make the publication a weekday evening title. More chances for its journalists to try to antagonise the Putin/Medvedev duopoly perhaps.
