By Michael Seamark and Will Stewart, Mail Online, 26 September 2012

    Alexander Lebedev unleashed punches on businessman Sergei Polonsky
    Claims the case against him is part of a vendetta by President Vladimir Putin
 

Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev faces up to seven years in jail after being charged yesterday with ‘hooliganism’ over a televised punch-up.

Moscow prosecutors launched a criminal investigation against Mr Lebedev, whose family backs the Independent and London Evening Standard newspapers, after he threw a punch at a property developer during a prime-time talk show.

The 52-year-old media tycoon – who also co-owns Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s main pro-democracy paper, and is a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin – faces the same draconian charges that resulted in members of female punk group Pussy Riot being jailed [....]

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Russian Tycoon Alexander Lebedev Charged With Hooliganism
By Jessica Golloher, Voice of America News, Septebmer 26, 2012