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TIL the British online newspaper ‘The Independent’ is owned by Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev and his son. Lebedev also owns a stake in Gazprom, a Russian oil company headquarter in Moscow, and a stake in Sbrerbank, a Russian bank accused of funding insurgents in Ukraine.

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