...here's an excerpt from the Wiki page overview of "The Independent"...
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The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. Lebedev also co-owned Novaya Gazeta alongside Mikhail Gorbachev until the latter's death on 30 August 2022.[7] In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in The Independent.[8]
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Enough said...
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent