Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev.
Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev is a Russian businessman, and has been referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. Until 1992, he was an officer in the First Chief Directorate of the Soviet Union′s KGB and later one of the KGB's successor-agencies, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).
I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.
I don't believe in democracy by bayonet.
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
Facts are important to me, not emotions. I would caution against speculation.
Owning a newspaper does not confer immunity.
Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.
It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.
Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.