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Russian media tycoon Lebedev under pressure after Putin’s villa report

Ekho Moskvy Radio

Russian businessman Aleksandr Lebedev, who together with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev controls the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, has become under “unprecedented” pressure after the paper published reports according to which a villa is being built for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in southern Russia, editor in chief of The New Times magazine Yegveniya Albats said in the “Special opinion” programme of the Gazprom-owned, editorially independent Ekho Moskvy radio on 15 February.