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Name: Alexander Lebedev

Place of birth: Moscow

Height: 180 cm Weight: 95 kg

Zodiac sign: Sagittarius

Eastern horoscope: Pig

Occupation: entrepreneur

BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER LEBEDEV

Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev is a major entrepreneur, banker, beneficial owner of the financial and industrial holding National Reserve Corporation, which includes about a hundred enterprises in various sectors of the economy, media tycoon, owner of a large stake in Novaya Gazeta, the British TV channel London Live, the influential publications Evening Standard, Independent, I Newspaper and other media resources. Previously, a people's deputy and KGB officer.

According to Forbes, he amassed a billion-dollar fortune in the late 1990s through transactions with commercial and government debt. In 2006, his capital reached $3.7 billion, but subsequently the entrepreneur lost most of his assets. In 2015, his assets were valued at $400 million.

CHILDHOOD AND FAMILY OF ALEXANDER LEBEDEV

The future oligarch was born on December 16, 1959 in Moscow. The head of the family, Evgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev, was a well-known optical physicist in professional circles, a professor at the Moscow Higher Technical University. Bauman. Mom, Maria Sergeevna, taught students a foreign language at MGIMO.

The parents gave their son an excellent education. At first he studied at school No. 17 with an English bias, then at the economics department of the Institute of International Relations. In 1982, upon completion of his studies, he began working at the academic Institute of Economics of the World Social System.

CAREER OF ALEXANDER LEBEDEV

In 1983, he was offered to join the ranks of state security officers. In 1984, Alexander graduated from the Red Banner Institute. Yu. Andropov KGB USSR. As an undercover intelligence officer, he held various positions in Soviet diplomatic missions abroad. Since 1987, Alexander lived and worked in the capital of Foggy Albion, which allowed him to make many useful contacts.

A successful diplomat, intelligence officer, involved in British history, acquired useful connections in business circles,

Personal life of Alexander Lebedev

At the moment, the oligarch is married for the second time. His first wife was the daughter of academician Vladimir Sokolov, Natalya. Their common son, Evgeniy, was born in 1980. In 1998, the marriage broke up. Evgeniy Aleksandrovich became an economist and was the executive director of English media resources owned by his father (Independent, I Newspaper, Evening Standard). The second choice of the millionaire was model Elena Perminova, who was 27 years younger than her husband. She gave him three children: Nikita (born in 2009), Egor (born in 2011) and Arina (born in 2014). According to media reports, at a young age (17 years old) she was prosecuted on charges of drug distribution. The young girl faced a prison sentence of up to 6 years in prison. However, allegedly thanks to the support of Alexander, a deputy in those years, to whom Lena’s father turned for help, she received a suspended sentence. The businessman’s main hobbies are swimming and football.

Entrepreneur, co-owner of the NRB (National Reserve Bank), former State Duma deputy, publisher of Novaya Gazeta, banker, billionaire, president of the New Media media holding.

Biography

His father, Evgeniy Nikolaevich, is a professor, Doctor of Science, after graduating from Moscow Higher Technical University. Bauman devoted his entire life to teaching. In his youth, he was professionally involved in sports, played for the USSR national water polo team, was awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports”, and was friends with the famous Lev Yashin.

Mother - Maria Sergeevna - after graduating from a pedagogical institute in Moscow, she worked as a rural teacher on Sakhalin, then taught English at a university.

Lebedev studied at a special school with in-depth study of the English language. According to some reports, Alexander Mamut studied in the same class with Lebedev, who later, like Lebedev, became a major entrepreneur.

Education

In 1977, Lebedev entered the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO.
In 1982, upon completion of his studies, Lebedev was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1990 - Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences), where he began writing his Ph.D. thesis. However, he was soon asked to go to work in the First Main Directorate of the KGB (foreign intelligence).
From 1987 to 1991, Lebedev worked at the USSR Embassy in London as an attaché, third, and then second secretary. According to media reports, there he met his future business partners - diplomats Andrei Kostin and Anatoly Danilitsky.
In 1982, after completing his studies at MGIMO, A. Lebedev was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, where he began writing his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Debt problems and challenges of globalization.”
However, he was soon asked to go to work for the Foreign Intelligence Service, where Alexander Lebedev worked until 1992, working, in particular, on issues of preventing capital flight abroad.

Business and political activities

Having retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel, A. Lebedev decided to go into financial business and created his first brainchild - the Russian Investment and Financial Company (RIFK). In 1995, RIFK acquired the dwarf and troubled National Reserve Bank (NRB). In 2 years it has become one of the largest financial institutions in the country.
NRB, along with Alfa Bank, are the only ones of the country's 10 leading private banks that survived the August 1998 crisis.
Today, the National Reserve Bank is one of the top thirty leaders in the Russian banking system and is one of the most stable and reliable Russian banks, enjoying the trust of domestic and foreign investors.
The NRB is the core of the National Reserve Corporation (NRC) created on its basis.

Alexander Lebedev

Banker, billionaire, owner of the National Reserve Corporation, president of the National Investment Council, president of the New Media media holding. Deputy of the Slobodskaya District Duma for the Ilyinsky multi-mandate district No. 5 (Kirov region). In the past, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation: in the elections in 2003 he headed the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc, in the same year he left the bloc and joined the United Russia faction, and in 2006 he left it and became an independent deputy , collaborated with the A Just Russia party. Former KGB officer of the USSR. Doctor of Economic Sciences.

In 1977, Lebedev entered the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO. In 1982, upon completion of his studies, Lebedev was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1990 - Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences), where he began writing his Ph.D. thesis. However, he was soon asked to go to work in the First Main Directorate of the KGB (foreign intelligence). From 1987 to 1991, Lebedev worked at the USSR Embassy in London as an attaché, third, and then second secretary. According to media reports, there he met his future business partners - diplomats Andrei Kostin and Anatoly Danilitsky.

In 1991, Lebedev retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel and went into business. In 1992, he represented the Swiss bank Companie Financier Tradition in Russia and the CIS countries. In 1993, Lebedev created and headed the Russian Investment and Financial Company (RIFK). In 1995, RIFK acquired the National Reserve Bank (NRB), whose founders included Gazprom.

In 1999, together with the heads of large Russian companies and banks, Lebedev initiated the creation of the National Investment Council (NIC), whose main task was to contribute to the formation of a favorable investment climate in Russia. In March 2001, former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was called in the media one of the founders of the organization, agreed to become a co-chairman of the NIS. Subsequently, he appeared in the press as the chairman of its board of trustees, and Lebedev - first as chairman, and later as president of NIS.

In October 2000, Lebedev defended his candidate's dissertation on the topic "Problems of Russia's External Debt" at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Three years later, he defended his dissertation on the topic “Financial globalization in the context of problems of global, regional and national (Russian) development”, becoming a Doctor of Economic Sciences.

In December 2003, Lebedev ran for mayor of Moscow and received 12.35 percent of the vote. Yuri Luzhkov won the elections with 74.82 percent of the votes. During the elections, Lebedev was supported by the Rodina bloc, but he nominated himself as a candidate for mayor in order to, in his words, “not politicize” the electoral process.

During the election campaign, Lebedev promised, if elected, to double the income of the city treasury and all Muscovites within 500 days after taking office as mayor. Lebedev intended to implement his program through more efficient management of city property, as well as the demonopolization of the capital's construction complex.

At the same time, Lebedev stated that for him, winning the elections is not an end in itself. He noted that he considers it more important to declare an alternative development program for the city. A number of media outlets suggested that Lebedev’s election campaign in 2003 was just a way for him to make a name for himself in politics and preparation for a more serious fight for the post of mayor in 2007, when the situation would change dramatically due to the absence of Luzhkov himself among the future candidates (according to the law, he will no longer be able to participate in elections).

The same sources claimed that during the mayoral elections, Lebedev was supported by representatives of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation - allegedly in this way the Kremlin wanted to show that in the future it sees its own person as the leader of Moscow.

During his election campaign, Lebedev repeatedly noted that his “media” capabilities are significantly inferior to those of his main rival, the current mayor Luzhkov. In particular, Lebedev argued that Luzhkov has his own television channel, his own newspapers and his own radio. When Lebedev announced his withdrawal from the election campaign on November 28, he explained this precisely by the inequality of candidates in access to the media. However, the very next day, after consultations with the leadership of the Rodina bloc, Lebedev changed his decision and continued to participate in the elections.

Then, in December 2003, Lebedev took part in the parliamentary elections, heading the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc. Following the election results, Lebedev was elected to the State Duma of the fourth convocation. After winning the election, Lebedev, according to his official biography, left the post of president, chairman of the board of the National Reserve Bank and his other posts in business, concentrating on his work as a deputy.

However, already on December 20, 2003, deputy Lebedev left the Rodina bloc and joined the Duma faction of the United Russia party. The reason for this decision, according to Lebedev, was his disagreement with some extremist ideas of one of the leaders of Rodina. Lebedev did not specify which leader he meant.

In the State Duma of the fourth convocation, Lebedev took the positions of deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots, coordinator of the inter-factional deputy association "Capital", coordinator of the group for relations with the Parliament of Ukraine, member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

On December 5, 2003, during the campaigns for the election of the mayor of Moscow and State Duma deputies, Lebedev announced the decision to consolidate his business - to unite under the auspices of the National Reserve Corporation (NRC) assets controlled by him and his partners worth more than $2.2 billion. At the same time, Lebedev himself became the owner of 60 percent of NRC shares.

In 2003-2004, Lebedev was a participant in events related to the tender for the transfer to management of Sheremetyevo International Airport (SIA). In the spring of 2003, Lebedev's National Reserve Bank acquired 30 percent of Aeroflot shares (51.17 percent of the company's shares remained with the state). In October, the Russian government decided to hold a competition for the management of Sheremetyevo Airport, which was actively used by Aeroflot. Lebedev categorically objected to its holding, saying that “the airport should be managed by the state together with Aeroflot.” In January 2004, Alfa-Sheremetyevo, a subsidiary of Alfa Group, won the tender to select a management company for SIA, and the losing side turned out to be the owners of Aeroflot, including Lebedev. In June 2004, the Russian government decided to involve Aeroflot in developing a concept for the development of Sheremetyevo. In fact, this meant a revision of the results of the competition. According to media reports, the reason for this decision was a statement by representatives of Aeroflot "about the intention to transfer all airline flights from Sheremetyevo to Domodedovo and Vnukovo in the event that Aeroflot is not allowed to manage the airport.

On June 7, 2006, at the World Newspaper Congress in Moscow, it was announced that Lebedev and ex-USSR President Gorbachev had purchased 49 percent of the shares of Novaya Gazeta. According to media reports, 39 percent of the shares went to Lebedev, 10 percent to Gorbachev. The remaining 51 percent of the shares remained with the publication staff.

In June 2006, Lebedev intervened in the conflict between residents of the Yuzhnoye Butovo microdistrict and the Moscow authorities, who attempted, on the basis of a court decision, to forcibly relocate residents from their private homes. Lebedev stated that he took a commercial lease of one of the houses intended for demolition. Thus, according to Lebedev, this premises is subject to parliamentary immunity. Some media outlets linked Lebedev’s activism during the conflict in South Butovo with the long-standing confrontation between him and Luzhkov, dating back to the Moscow mayoral elections in 2003.

In September 2007, reports appeared about a conflict between Lebedev and the leader of the A Just Russia - Rodina faction, Alexander Babakov, who told New Region correspondents: “Lebedev is in United Russia, do you know about this?” Commenting on this statement, Lebedev noted that he is an independent deputy: “I left the United Russia faction, but did not join the Just Russia faction because it was too weak.” Lebedev especially emphasized that he is not going to leave anywhere and will definitely will participate in the election campaign."

Meanwhile, by 2006, the total assets of Lebedev’s National Reserve Corporation exceeded $2 billion. The main asset of NRC at that time was called the second largest stake after the state in the Aeroflot airline (about 30 percent) and the leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co (IFK, 44 percent), which in turn owned a controlling stake (56 percent) "Voronezh Joint-Stock Aircraft Manufacturing Company". In addition to the bank, the NRC included: “National Meat Company”, “National Mortgage Company”, “NRB Finance” company and a number of construction organizations.

In 2007, observers started talking about Lebedev’s connection with the A Just Russia party, headed by the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote in the spring of that year that Lebedev might actually exercise leadership of the Moscow branch of A Just Russia. The publication cited the appointment as head of the capital branch of the party of a fellow banker and State Duma deputy Andrei Samoshin as confirmation of this. NG experts considered that Lebedev would become the person who would sponsor the “Right Russia” during the election campaign. In May 2007, it became known that Lebedev would become number one on the Moscow list of A Just Russia in the upcoming State Duma elections. However, party leader Mironov said that the final decision will be made at the pre-election congress of A Just Russia.

On September 23, 2007, the A Just Russia congress approved the list of candidates for the upcoming State Duma elections, but Lebedev was not on it. During the congress, he himself announced that he was ready to refuse to participate in parliamentary elections in order to engage in charitable activities and party work. “I will integrate deeper into the party,” he said.

In September 2007, during the press conference “Problems of urban planning policy in Moscow,” Lebedev spoke as one of the members of the inter-factional deputy association “Our Capital”. It was reported that its parliamentary participants decided to create an alternative “shadow government” of the capital, which will independently identify and solve the problems of Muscovites, since, in their opinion, the main motive of the existing city management system is making a profit. At the same time, Lebedev noted that he does not expect that the Moscow government will treat their initiative well. “We will most likely be called traitors,” he said.

In January 2008, Lebedev was named as one of the authors (editors) of a report prepared by the Russian Institute for National Monitoring of Democratic Procedures. The co-authors of this study were former USSR President Gorbachev and the head of the board of directors of the Independent Election Institute, Alexander Ivanchenko. The document noted that in 2005-2007, the basic principles of electoral legislation in the country “were completely or partially revised,” as a result of which passive electoral law (the right to be elected) in Russia became more limited. According to the authors of the report, during the election campaign to the State Duma of the fifth convocation, there were “serious deviations from the principle of free elections, which were expressed in the coercion of some voters to participate in the elections, as well as in individual cases of attempts to control the will of voters.” However, in general, they noted, “these elections largely satisfy the proclaimed principles of universal, equal and direct suffrage.”

In March 2008, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, announced that Gorbachev and Lebedev suggested that he create a holding company based on the publication, “which would include several newspapers, radio stations, Internet resources, and possibly its own sociological service.” In April of the same year, the media reported that the shareholders of Novaya Gazeta decided to create a media holding, which included Novaya Gazeta and the Moscow Correspondent newspaper (published since September 2007). It was reported that subsequently the holding was supposed to expand and be replenished with other media, including a glossy magazine “for smart people” and a number of Internet resources. At the beginning of June 2008, the media holding was registered. It was called "New Media". Lebedev took over as president of the new structure.

In July 2008, Kommersant, citing a source close to Lebedev, reported that his National Reserve Corporation (NRK) was buying 76 percent of the Oger group - the sixth largest tour operator in Germany (the main direction is Turkey, as well as tours to Cuba, in Thailand, Tunisia and Dominican Republic). According to experts, the transaction amount could be 100-125 million euros. Market participants noted that the purchase of a tour operator would help Lebedev “load the airlines owned by NRK” - Red Wings, 100 percent owned by the corporation, and the German Blue Wings (NRK owns 49 percent of the shares).

In October 2008, the Basmanny Court of Moscow upheld Luzhkov's claim against GQ magazine and businessman Alexander Lebedev for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The reason for the lawsuit was Lebedev’s interview with a magazine, in which he called “Yu.M. Luzhkov” the source of a rumor published by the newspaper “Moscow Correspondent” about Putin’s alleged upcoming marriage to Kabaeva. Lebedev stated that by “Yu.M. Luzhkov” he did not mean the mayor of Moscow, and after the court decision he filed an appeal.

In January 2009, information appeared in the media that Lebedev was negotiating the purchase of the influential British publication Evening Standard, but such reports were followed by denials. On January 16, the acquisition of the newspaper by a Russian entrepreneur was spoken of as a fait accompli, and The Times also reported the estimated cost of the transaction. The only paid newspaper in London was going to be sold for 1 pound sterling (approximately 48 rubles), since the publication of the newspaper brought multimillion-dollar losses to its owners. The deal took place on January 21, 2009 and became, according to The Guardian, a “watershed moment” for the British print industry - the Evening Standard became the first major publication to be acquired by a Russian. In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Lebedev said he was giving the Evening Standard three years to start making a profit. Otherwise, the newspaper will be closed, since in the conditions of falling markets the entrepreneur was not able to support the unprofitable newspaper for longer than this period.

In mid-March 2009, Lebedev announced that he was going to run for the post of mayor of Sochi and promised voters to reduce the bureaucracy “by more than half” and also to develop infrastructure. Lebedev officially submitted documents to the local election commission on March 24, 2009. On April 1 of the same year, he was registered as one of the contenders for the position of mayor of the future capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics. However, in the same month, Vladimir Trukhanovsky, another candidate for the post of mayor of Sochi, filed a lawsuit to invalidate the decision of the election commission to register Lebedev. He motivated his demand by the fact that errors were allegedly made in Lebedev’s registration. Soon after this, by decision of the court of the Central District of Sochi, the registration of the entrepreneur was canceled.

Due to economic problems in the spring of 2009, German authorities refused to renew Blue Wings airline's license. However, she was still allowed to fly after a businessman provided 10 billion euros to save her. However, in January 2010, Blue Wings stopped flying again. The company's financial problems led to the fact that in May 2010, seven of its airliners were sold at auction, and Lebedev admitted that he would not be able to restore its activities.

In January 2010, Aeroflot's board of directors approved the purchase of 25.8 percent of the company's shares from NRK. According to sources of the Kommersant newspaper close to the board of directors of Aeroflot, the transaction amount was supposed to be $400 million. Lebedev himself clarified that one of its conditions was “reinvestment of the proceeds from the sale of NRC packages into the Russian assets of the corporation” - the Red Wings airline, the National Land Company and the National Housing Corporation. At the same time, an agreement was reached that NRC would sell VEB a 26 percent stake in the leasing company IFC.

The sale of Aeroflot shares was supposed to be carried out in two transactions with Aeroflot Finance. The first of them - the repurchase of 6.3 percent of shares - was closed at the end of February 2010; its details and the amount of the transaction were not reported, but it was noted that Lebedev was ultimately supposed to sell the entire package for 11.07 billion rubles. In March of the same year, the media noted that Lebedev lost 3.33 billion rubles on the sale of Aeroflot shares, selling the air carrier's shares at a 28 percent discount to the market price. However, the second deal never took place: the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation opposed VEB’s purchase of IFC shares, after which Lebedev refused to further sell the shares.

In March 2010, it became known that Lebedev had made a deal to purchase the British newspaper The Independent and its Sunday version, The Independent on Sunday, which were suffering losses. On March 25, the transfer of two publications to the company Independent Print Limited, owned by the Lebedev family, was officially announced. The company was headed by Lebedev’s son Evgeniy, and the entrepreneur himself became a member of its board of directors. In October of the same year, Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev launched a new publishing project - a “light” version of The Independent, called “i”.

Back in December 2006, it became known about Lebedev’s intention to create his own oil business, in connection with which he created the NRK-Oil company. However, in April 2009, Lebedev put his oil assets up for sale, explaining this by strong competition, significant state involvement in the industry and the futility of small oil businesses in Russia. Almost a year later, in early April 2010, two of the four oil companies controlled by NRK-Oil were acquired by the TNK-BP corporation; the amount of this transaction was estimated by experts at 60-70 million dollars.

In December 2010, the NRB confirmed the fact of the sale during the placement (as part of a private placement) of 4 of the 19 percent of Aeroflot shares owned by the businessman. The transaction amount was not disclosed; According to analysts, it could be $110 million. Observers linked Lebedev’s decision to sell the airline’s shares “with problems at the National Reserve Bank,” which “faced an outflow of funds” after searches carried out by security forces in early November 2010. The searches in the NRB were carried out as part of the investigation of a criminal case initiated in August of the same year under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("fraud on an especially large scale") on suspicion of misuse of state support funds allocated to Lebedev Bank in 2008 for the bank's reorganization "Russian capital". It was reported that it was about the theft of 450 million rubles. The businessman himself called the case fabricated: according to him, funds were withdrawn from Russian Capital even before its reorganization.

In his letter sent to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in February 2011, Lebedev indicated that the employees who inspected the bank he headed did not hide: they came “on a “special task” to punish the owner for his “newspapers.” In the same letter, the businessman asked the head of state to instruct the Investigative Committee and the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation to check the work of the NRB. In the same month, Lebedev was summoned for questioning as a witness in a fraud case to the Main Investigation Department of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate. Then, in February 2011, it became known that the businessman sold 15 percent of NRB shares to his son Evgeniy. According to Lebedev, he “was not afraid to purchase the bank’s shares at the “right” price”; the transaction amount was not disclosed.

In March 2011, Kommersant reported that Lebedev, who acted as a self-nominated candidate, was registered as a candidate for deputy of the Slobodskaya District Duma in the Ilyinsky multi-mandate constituency No. 5 (Kirov region). The entrepreneur denied assumptions that he needed a deputy’s mandate to become a member of the Federation Council. “I really want to work in a depressed region,” he said in an interview with the publication. The businessman also announced a joint plan of events drawn up by him together with the regional governor Nikita Belykh. In the same month, Lebedev took part in the elections as a candidate, and having received just under 40 percent of the votes, he became a deputy of the district duma.

In May 2011, the public movement "Our Capital", which was headed by Lebedev, expressed a desire to join the All-Russian Popular Front. At the same time, Lebedev announced that he was leaving business and selling a significant part of his assets, including part of the airwaves on his radio frequency Radio Liberty and the Russian service of the BBC, a development business, as well as 56 percent of the shares of the National Reserve Bank. At the same time, Lebedev decided to maintain his printing business by merging Novaya Gazeta and The Independent. The businessman cited his desire to fight corruption in the credit and financial sphere within the framework of the All-Russian Popular Front as the reason for stopping his business activities.

At the end of January 2012, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation began an inspection of the NRB, unprecedented in scale; In addition, in February, law enforcement agencies conducted searches at the bank's offices. Lebedev himself again connected what was happening with his financing of the opposition press. One of the results of the audit was that Lebedev was forced to suspend financing of Novaya Gazeta due to the blocking of his bank account.

In February 2012, Lebedev proposed including the famous blogger and founder of the RosPil project, Alexei Navalny, on the Aeroflot board of directors. In June of the same year, the general meeting of shareholders supported Navalny's candidacy with two-thirds of the votes, and he became an independent director of the airline.

In April 2012, Lebedev joined the coordination council of the new social democratic movement "Left Alliance". The initiators of the creation of this union were State Duma deputies from A Just Russia Gennady and Dmitry Gudkov, as well as Ilya Ponomarev, who saw in the alliance “a unifying platform on the basis of which all left-wing forces will be grouped.”

In early August 2012, Lebedev said in an interview with Reuters that he planned to sell all his assets in Russia in order to avoid political persecution by the authorities and arrest. At the beginning of the next month, it became known that Lebedev had resigned as president of NRB, but would work for the bank for free “as part of a cost-cutting strategy.”

It was noted that Lebedev is actively involved in charitable activities. On his initiative, a “Charitable Reserve Fund” was created.

According to some media reports, Lebedev maintains friendly relations with Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev.

Awards

Lebedev was awarded the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church and the UNESCO Medal "Dialogue of Cultures".

State

According to Russian Forbes magazine, Lebedev's fortune by 2006 was estimated at $3.7 billion. According to the magazine, Lebedev took 23rd place in the list of the richest people in Russia. In 2008, the publication placed him in 39th place (his fortune was estimated at $3.1 billion).

Family

Lebedev is officially divorced. He divorced his first wife Natalya in 1998, their son Evgeniy worked as chief executive officer of the Evening Standard as of early 2010; in the same year he took over the company that published The Independent and The Independent on Sunday newspapers.

In addition to Evgeny, Lebedev has a son, Nikita, from model Elena Perminova.

51-year-old Alexander Lebedev is a successful entrepreneur who holds the high position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC NRK. Under his leadership, the London newspapers Independent and Evening Standard are published. But the gray-haired handsome man has a turbulent past: Lebedev is a former State Duma deputy, known for espionage activities. There was also a girl to match such a man.

Alexander’s wife is model Elena Perminova (she is 26 years old, the age difference between the spouses is 25 years). A simple girl from Berdyansk became known not only as a Playboy star and the heroine of video clips of domestic stars - the model attracted public attention after an unpleasant incident with charges of drug trafficking. Then 17-year-old Perminova, who had fallen under the influence of her then boyfriend, who was involved in an illegal business, just like in a fairy tale, Alexander Lebedev came to the rescue. The girl got off with a suspended sentence, reformed and thanked her savior with love, devotion and her son Nikita, who was born to the couple in 2009.

Relationship secret: noble knight. A strong and powerful patron - isn’t this the kind of companion that a good half of women dream of? Elena Perminova got not only strong and powerful, but also extremely rich. Let us remind you that, according to Forbes magazine, Lebedev has a personal fortune of $2.1 billion, lives in London, and is friends with Natasha Vodianova. They say the marriage is very strong - the couple are expecting a second child.

Interests

Lebedev enjoys football and swimming.

Compromising evidence

At the end of 2004, Lebedev supported the “orange” during the presidential elections in Ukraine. A number of analysts substantiated Lebedev’s position by the fact that the latter was involved in Ukrainian business and expected to receive support from the new government for his commercial projects, which he began back in 1995 by purchasing the NRB-Ukraine bank and the Eurasian Insurance Alliance company. In addition, in the late 90s, Lebedev actively worked in the Ukrainian real estate market, investing about $100 million in it.

However, in 2005-2006, Lebedev repeatedly stated that the new Ukrainian government was putting pressure on him and his business partners. In particular, the Ukrainian authorities initiated a trial to review the results of the privatization of the Kyiv hotel "Ukraine" owned by Lebedev. In April 2009, Lebedev won: the Economic Court of Kiev awarded ownership of the hotel to the Commercial Company included in the NRC and the Hotel Ukraine enterprise. In September 2011, it became known that the NRC got rid of all assets and real estate in Ukraine ( including a share in the Ukraina Hotel and resort complexes in Crimea), while Lebedev motivated this by the fact that he wants to focus on publishing and social activities. The businessman continued to engage in only a few philanthropic projects in Ukraine.

In August 2007, a member of the United Russia faction, Vladimir Medinsky, sued Lebedev for “severe moral suffering” caused to him by publications on the blog and on the Kommersant website (meaning accusations of lobbying for the gambling business). Medinsky demanded that Lebedev publish a refutation, and that the court demand compensation in the amount of 100 million rubles. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for August 13, 2007 (the results were not reported).

However, it is known that the conflict has not subsided: on August 21, an online debate between Medinsky and Lebedev took place on the Kommersant website. In June 2008, the Basmanny Court of Moscow ordered Lebedev to compensate for moral damages to Medinsky and to publish a refutation of his statements that were made on the entrepreneur’s LiveJournal. At the same time, despite the fact that Medinsky demanded to recover 100 million rubles from the defendant, the court ordered Lebedev to pay the plaintiff 30 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage caused.

In the spring of 2008, Lebedev was mentioned in the media in connection with the material published on April 11 in the daily newspaper Moscow Correspondent, which he owns, about the possible wedding of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former gymnast, State Duma deputy Alina Kabaeva. Putin denied this information and said: “I have always had a bad attitude towards those who, with some kind of flu-like nose and with their erotic fantasies, meddle in someone else’s life.” After this, a number of publications disseminated information that for financial reasons the newspaper was closed by Lebedev. Subsequently, it turned out that this was not the case - the publication of the newspaper was suspended and, as reported, should be resumed, but the concept of the publication would change. The editor-in-chief of Moscow Correspondent resigned - as reported, of his own free will.

The story of the scandalous publication developed: the press started talking about it as the forerunner of the end of Lebedev’s political career. The reason for this was the approval at the congress of the A Just Russia party of a new charter and leadership, from which Lebedev was removed. Mironov, who was re-elected chairman of the party, said that there should be no “random fellow travelers” in the ranks of the party, one of which, according to him, is Lebedev. Mironov decided that their joint activity had come to its logical conclusion, and also expressed dissatisfaction with the publication about the upcoming wedding of Putin and Kabaeva: “Publishing such articles about the president is vile!” At the same time, Lebedev is confident that he will be the party's only random fellow traveler. According to the businessman, he never hid the fact that he was not a member of any party, but he collaborated with Our Home Russia, United Russia, and A Just Russia when interests coincided. He added that he accepted Gorbachev's offer to become co-chairman of the Socialist Party, which he had recently registered.

In September 2011, it became known about a claim for compensation for moral damage that former Moscow mayor Luzhkov filed against Lebedev and the Ekho Moskvy radio station. The reason for the lawsuit was Luzhkov’s accusations of theft of state property, made by the entrepreneur on the radio. A month later, the court found Lebedev guilty, and also ordered him to refute his allegations and pay the ex-mayor 80 thousand rubles in compensation. The claim against the radio station was not satisfied.

In mid-September 2011, Lebedev found himself at the center of a scandal when, during a recording of the NTVshniki program on the NTV channel, he publicly hit the famous businessman Sergei Polonsky in the face. In this regard, at the beginning of October 2011, a criminal case was opened against Lebedev on charges of hooliganism. That same month, Polonsky sued Lebedev in the UK, accusing him of libel: Lebedev had previously stated in the British press that he had hit Polonsky in response to his aggressive behavior. On September 26, 2012, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow charged Lebedev with hooliganism and battery, choosing him a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the place.

Education and degrees

After graduating from a school with in-depth study of English in 1977, he entered MGIMO at the Faculty of Economics. He graduated from the institute in 1982 (specialty in international economic relations). 1984 - completion of studies at the Red Banner Institute named after Yu. V. Andropov of the KGB of the USSR. In 2000, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Debt problems and challenges of globalization.” Since 2003 - Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Personal life

Lebedev's sports hobbies include football and swimming. The entrepreneur runs his own LiveJournal, which he calls “Capitalist-Idealist.” Officially divorced since 1998 (he has a son, Evgeniy, from his first marriage). Currently, in a civil marriage with Elena Perminova, she is raising a common son, Nikita.

Career

Lebedev is a reserve KGB colonel and was a member of the CPSU from 1979 to 1991. In 1982–1983 he was an employee of the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1983 to 1992 he was engaged in diplomatic activities and worked in the Information Directorate. From 1987 to 1992 he worked at the USSR Embassy in Great Britain. Since 1992 - work in the foreign intelligence of the USSR. After leaving the reserve, he began commercial activities. In 1993, he founded RIFK JSC and became chairman of the company’s board of directors. President and CEO of the National Reserve Bank from 1995 to 2004. In 2004–2007 - deputy of the State Duma. Since 2008, he has been involved in the development of several media projects.

Condition and fixed assets

In 2005, Forbes magazine ranked Alexander Lebedev 26th on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, indicating that his capital is $1.6 billion. By 2006, Lebedev's fortune had increased to $3.7 billion, placing him 23rd on the list of Russian rich people. By 2010, the crisis had reduced the businessman’s capital to $2 billion. With this indicator, Lebedev occupies 34th position in the Russian Forbes ranking. In 2009, the businessman contacted the magazine with a request to exclude him from the list, but due to the fact that the information about the capital was reasonable and truthful, the request was not granted.

Banker, billionaire, owner of the National Reserve Corporation, president of the National Investment Council, president of the New Media media holding. In 2003, he became a deputy of the State Duma of the fourth convocation, heading the Moscow regional list of the Rodina bloc. Following this, he left the bloc and joined the United Russia faction, and in 2006 he left it and became an independent deputy, collaborating with the A Just Russia party. In 2003 he ran for mayor of Moscow. Former KGB officer of the USSR. Doctor of Economic Sciences.

Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev was born in Moscow in 1959. Father - Evgeniy Nikolaevich - professor at the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical University, Doctor of Technical Sciences. Mother - Maria Sergeevna - worked as a teacher on Sakhalin, then taught English at Moscow universities. Lebedev studied at a special school with in-depth study of the English language. According to some reports, Alexander Mamut studied in the same class with Lebedev, who later, like Lebedev, became a major entrepreneur.

In 1977, Lebedev entered the Faculty of Economics at MGIMO. In 1982, upon completion of his studies, Lebedev was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System of the USSR Academy of Sciences (since 1990 - Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences), where he began writing his Ph.D. thesis. However, he was soon asked to go to work in the First Main Directorate of the KGB (foreign intelligence). From 1987 to 1991, Lebedev worked in London under the cover of a diplomatic mission. According to media reports, in London Lebedev met his future business partners - diplomats Andrei Kostin and Anatoly Danilitsky.

In 1991, Lebedev retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel and went into business. In 1992, he represented the Swiss bank "Company Financier Tradition" in Russia and the CIS countries. In 1993, he created and headed the Russian Investment and Financial Company (RIFK). In 1995, RIFK acquired the National Reserve Bank (NRB), whose founders included Gazprom.

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At the same time, Lebedev stated that for him, winning the elections is not an end in itself. He noted that he considered it more important to declare an alternative program for the development of the city. A number of media outlets suggested that Lebedev’s election campaign in 2003 was just a way for him to make a name for himself in politics and preparation for a more serious fight for the post of mayor in 2007, when the situation would change dramatically due to the absence of Luzhkov himself among the future candidates (according to the law, he will no longer be able to participate in elections).

In June 2006, Lebedev announced his entry into Mironov’s party, in connection with which he announced his imminent departure from the United Russia faction and transition to the Duma faction A Just Russia. Some time later, information appeared in the press that the businessman, at the request of the Kremlin, would not head the Moscow party list in the elections. In September 2007, reports appeared about a conflict between Lebedev and the leader of the A Just Russia - Rodina faction, Alexander Babakov, who told New Region correspondents: “Lebedev is in United Russia, do you know about this?” Commenting on this statement, Lebedev noted that he is an independent deputy: “I left the United Russia faction, but did not join the Just Russia faction because it was too weak.” Lebedev especially emphasized that he is not going to leave anywhere and will definitely will participate in the election campaign."

In 2007, observers started talking about Lebedev’s connection with the A Just Russia party, headed by the Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov. Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote in the spring of that year that Lebedev might actually exercise leadership of the Moscow branch of A Just Russia. The publication cited the appointment as head of the capital branch of the party of a fellow banker and State Duma deputy Andrei Samoshin as confirmation of this. NG experts believed that Lebedev would become the person who would sponsor the “Right Russia” during the election campaign. In May 2007, it became known that Lebedev would become number one on the Moscow list of A Just Russia in the upcoming State Duma elections. However, party leader Mironov said that the final decision will be made at the pre-election congress of A Just Russia.

The media wrote about Lebedev as a famous blogger. In his LJ “Capitalist-idealist” he noted: “This is not an election project. And not an illegitimate child of PR. This is precisely what is above all commercialism, because it does not cost me anything, not a cent, not a penny - only emotional experiences and nervous cells". However, on the pages of his LiveJournal one could find many comments regarding the activities of the Moscow government and the political situation in the country as a whole. In August 2007, a member of the United Russia faction, Vladimir Medinsky, sued Lebedev for “severe moral suffering” caused to him by publications on the blog and on the Kommersant website (meaning accusations of lobbying for the gambling business). Medinsky demanded that Lebedev publish a refutation, and that the court demand compensation in the amount of 100 million rubles. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for August 13, 2007 (the results were not reported). However, it is known that the conflict has not subsided: on August 21, an online debate between Medinsky and Lebedev took place on the Kommersant website. In June 2008, the Basmanny Court of Moscow ordered Lebedev to compensate for moral damages to Medinsky and to publish a refutation of his statements that were made on the entrepreneur’s LiveJournal. At the same time, despite the fact that Medinsky demanded to recover 100 million rubles from the defendant, the court ordered Lebedev to pay the plaintiff 30 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage caused.

In 2007, after leaving the Duma, as president of the National Investment Council, Lebedev appeared in reports about the presentation of the International Institute for Comparative Studies of Political Cultures (MISIPC), among the founders of which was NIS, as well as the Gorbachev Foundation, the Independent Institute of Elections, the Institute of Economics RAS, Institute of Europe RAS, Institute of USA and Canada RAS and other organizations. Vedomosti noted that NIS, the Gorbachev Foundation and the Independent Institute of Elections have been engaged in a project to develop a national system for assessing democratic procedures since the beginning of 2007. At the presentation, Lebedev himself said that as a result of the elections, “one and a half centimeters of research” had appeared. In January 2008, Lebedev was named as one of the authors (editors) of a report prepared by the Russian Institute for National Monitoring of Democratic Procedures. The co-authors of this study were former USSR President Gorbachev and the head of the board of directors of the Independent Election Institute, Alexander Ivanchenko. The document noted that in 2005-2007, the basic principles of electoral legislation in the country “were completely or partially revised,” as a result of which passive electoral law (the right to be elected) in Russia became more limited. According to the authors of the report, during the election campaign to the State Duma of the fifth convocation, there were “serious deviations from the principle of free elections, which were expressed in the coercion of some voters to participate in the elections, as well as in individual cases of attempts to control the will of voters.” However, in general, they noted, “these elections largely satisfy the proclaimed principles of universal, equal and direct suffrage.”

In March 2008, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, announced that Gorbachev and Lebedev suggested that he create a holding company based on the publication, “which would include several newspapers, radio stations, Internet resources, and possibly its own sociological service.” In April of the same year, the media reported that the shareholders of Novaya Gazeta had decided to create a media holding, which would include Novaya Gazeta and the newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent (published since September 2007). It was reported that the holding would subsequently expand and be replenished with other media, including a glossy magazine “for smart people” and a number of Internet resources. At the beginning of June 2008, the media holding was registered. It was called "New Media". Lebedev took over as president of the new structure.

In January 2010, the board of directors of Aeroflot approved the purchase of 25.8 percent of the company's shares from NRK Lebedev. According to Kommersant newspaper sources close to the board of directors of Aeroflot, the transaction amount was supposed to be $400 million. Lebedev himself clarified that one of the conditions of this deal was “reinvestment of the proceeds from the sale of NRC packages into the Russian assets of the corporation” - the Red Wings airline, the National Land Company and the National Housing Corporation. The sale of securities was supposed to be carried out in two transactions with Aeroflot Finance. The first of them - the repurchase of 6.3 percent of shares - was closed at the end of February 2010; its details and the amount of the transaction were not reported, but it was noted that Lebedev was ultimately supposed to sell the entire package for 11.07 billion rubles. In March of the same year, it became known that Lebedev lost 3.33 billion rubles on the sale of Aeroflot shares, selling the air carrier's shares at a 28 percent discount to the market price. At the same time, as Vedomosti emphasized, the businessman sold Aeroflot shares for almost three times more than he bought.

Since 2009, the German airline Blue Wings, owned by Lebedev, has been in distress. In the spring of 2009, due to economic problems, the German authorities refused to renew the company's license, but after Lebedev provided 10 billion euros to save it, flights were still allowed. However, in January 2010, Blue Wings stopped flights again. The company's financial problems led to the fact that in May 2010, seven of its airliners were sold at auction, and Lebedev admitted that he would not be able to restore its activities.

According to Russian Forbes magazine, Lebedev's fortune by 2006 was estimated at $3.7 billion. According to the magazine, Lebedev took twenty-third place in the list of the richest people in Russia. By 2006, the total assets of Lebedev's National Reserve Corporation exceeded $2 billion. The main asset of the NRC is the National Reserve Bank, which has the second largest stake after the state in the Aeroflot airline (about 30 percent) and the leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co. (44 percent), which in turn owned a controlling stake (56 percent). percent) "Voronezh Joint-Stock Aircraft Manufacturing Company". In addition to the bank, the NRC included: “National Meat Company”, “National Mortgage Company”, “NRB Finance” company and a number of construction organizations. In 2008, Russian Forbes placed Lebedev in 39th place. His fortune was estimated at $3.1 billion.

It was noted that Lebedev is actively involved in charitable activities. On his initiative, a “Charitable Reserve Fund” was created.

According to some media reports, Lebedev maintains friendly relations with Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev.

Lebedev was awarded the Order of the Russian Orthodox Church and the UNESCO Medal "Dialogue of Cultures".

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Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev - philanthropist, businessman, politician, owner of the National Reserve Bank and a number of British newspapers, including the Independent. Doctor of Economic Sciences, the topic of the dissertation is “Financial globalization in the context of problems of global, regional and national (Russian) development.”

Alexander Lebedev was born in Moscow on December 16, 1959. His father, Evgeniy Nikolaevich, is a professor, Doctor of Science, and after graduating from the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical University, he devoted his entire life to teaching. In his youth, he was professionally involved in sports, played for the USSR national water polo team, was awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports”, and was friends with the famous football goalkeeper Lev Ivanovich Yashin. Mother - Maria Sergeevna - after graduating from a pedagogical institute in Moscow, she worked as a rural teacher on Sakhalin, then taught English at a university.

In 1977, Alexander entered the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO, where he studied in depth the global monetary and financial system, paying special attention to the problems of international debt obligations.

In 1982, after completing his studies at MGIMO, A. E. Lebedev was assigned to the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System, where he began writing his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Debt problems and challenges of globalization.” However, he was soon asked to go to work for the Foreign Intelligence Service, where Alexander Lebedev worked until 1992, working, in particular, on issues of preventing capital flight abroad.

Having retired to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Alexander Evgenievich decided to go into financial business and created his first brainchild - the Russian Investment and Financial Company (RIFK). In 1995, RIFK acquired the small and troubled National Reserve Bank (NRB). In 2 years it has become one of the largest financial institutions in the country.

NRB, along with Alfa Bank, are the only ones of the country's 10 leading private banks that survived the August 1998 crisis.

According to 2011 data, the National Reserve Bank is one of the top thirty leaders in the Russian banking system and is one of the most stable and reliable Russian banks, enjoying the trust of domestic and foreign investors.

The NRB is the core of the National Reserve Corporation (NRC) created on its basis.

NRK is one of the first large financial and industrial groups in Russia, focused not on making a profit from the exploitation of natural resources, but on financing high-tech industries and social sector enterprises.

In its investment policy, the corporation strives, first of all, to provide support to those industries whose development has a beneficial effect not only on the national economy, but also on the social sphere. Among the priorities are the implementation of investment projects in the aviation industry and air transportation, energy, agriculture, telecommunications, construction, mortgages and housing and communal services.

NRC is actively developing its business not only in Russia, but also abroad. Among its assets are Energobank and the European Insurance Alliance in Ukraine, and the aircraft leasing company Alpstream in Switzerland. The largest resort and recreational complex has been built and is operating in Crimea.

In 2003 Alexander Lebedev took part in the elections for the mayor of Moscow and in the elections of deputies to the State Duma. The first test of strength in the election of the head of the capital's executive power was successful - Lebedev received about 13% of the votes.

Following the parliamentary elections, Alexander Evgenievich was elected to the State Duma.

In this field, he became one of the most active legislators, introducing dozens of bills into parliament aimed at:

increasing information openness and responsibility of government authorities;

formation of an affordable housing market and development of the Russian aviation industry;

reforming the judicial system and the law enforcement system (in terms of eliminating the accusatory bias, reducing administrative and financial pressure on Russian courts and law enforcement agencies at all levels, improving the institution of cooperation with investigators, etc.);

reduction of privileges of officials at various levels (legislative prohibition of special signals, special license plates and special coupons on cars, etc.);

tightening of penalties for the sale of tobacco and alcoholic beverages to minors;

After the end of his term as a deputy in 2007, Alexander Lebedev returned to business. At the same time, he devotes a significant part of his time to public activities, being the president of the National Investment Council, the International Institute for World Development and the Center for Integration Problems of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a shareholder of Novaya Gazeta, A. Lebedev supports the publication, which has become a symbol of independent journalism in Russia. Together with the Memorial Society, A. Lebedev began implementing a project to build a Museum and Memorial Complex to the Victims of the Gulag based on the design of Ernst Neizvestny. In the fall of 2010, together with former USSR President Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, he co-founded the “Civil Dialogue” forum, designed to accumulate civil society initiatives.

Alexander Lebedev considers free media one of the most important institutions of a democratic society. As the head of the New Media holding and a shareholder of Novaya Gazeta, he supports the publication, which has become a symbol of independent investigative journalism in Russia. A. Lebedev is also the publisher of the British newspapers The London Evening Stadard, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and “i”.

At the same time, Alexander Lebedev is active in charitable activities, being the president of the Charitable Reserve Fund (CRF) and the founder of the international fund named after Raisa Gorbacheva. With the funds allocated by him, the largest children's oncology clinic in Russia was built in St. Petersburg, and the treatment of children at the Russian Oncology Research Center named after. Blokhin, purchases of medical equipment and internships of Russian doctors in the world's leading clinics are carried out.

Alexander Lebedev cooperates with the Russian Orthodox Church and provides support for its pastoral and missionary activities. The charitable reserve fund helps the Holy Trinity Lavra, the Sretensky Stavropegial Monastery, the Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery, and finances the restoration of the Spaso-Yakovlevsky and Assumption Cathedrals of Rostov the Great. With the funds of the NRC, a 65-meter lighthouse temple of St. was erected in the village of Malorechenskoye near Alushta. Nicholas of Myra, which has already become one of the attractions of Crimea.

Thanks to the support of Alexander Evgenievich Lebedev, the Theater and House-Museum of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in Yalta was restored, he helps the Theater-Workshop of Pyotr Fomenko, the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov, and the Center for Opera Singing of Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya. The Charitable Reserve Fund, together with the New World magazine, presents the writer's prize to them. Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov.

With funds from the foundation, a monument to Osip Mandelstam was erected in Voronezh. The BRF implements international projects aimed at supporting and disseminating the Russian language and culture outside of Russia. As part of this activity, a center for Russian culture, Château des Forgets, was opened in the vicinity of Paris, which in the future will become part of the network of “Russian houses in Europe.”

The monument to Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov was restored in Switzerland using the funds of the National Republic of Belarus, and the “Sorrowful” monument was erected in London - a sign of memory of the citizens of the USSR who died during the Second World War.

For active social and charitable activities, Alexander Lebedev was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, the Order of Ukraine “For Merit,” III degree, the Order of St. Innocent of the Moscow Russian Orthodox Church, the Order of St. Prince Vladimir of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and the medal UNESCO "Dialogue of Cultures".