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Alexander Smolensky

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Alexander Smolensky (Александр Смоленский in Russian) (born July 6, 1954) is the founder and president of one of the largest Russian banks, Stolichny Bank (also known as SBS/AGRO), which controls the newspapers Kommersant and Novaya Gazeta. Mr. Smolensky began his business activities on the black market of the so-called "shadow economy". His enterprises included trading currency, moonlighting on a second job in a bakery for which he lacked a permit and typesetting and publishing Bibles using government presses and ink to do so. For this he was arrested by the KGB in 1981 and charged with economic crimes. Then he was sentenced to two years of hard labor although he only served one day.

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