Litvinenko suspect to run for election as ultra-nationalist

Andrei Lugovoi, the former Russian agent wanted by Britain over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, is running for election as an ultra-nationalist candidate, a party leader said on Sunday.

Lugovoi declined to comment ahead of the ultra-nationalist LDPR party’s congress on Monday but told Moscow Echo radio he deeply respected the party and its firebrand leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

“I head the list (for the December 2 parliamentary elections), the fraction’s leader will be third. Our second will be Andrei Lugovoi— he has suffered, been targeted by British special services,” Zhirinovsky was quoted by online Gazeta.ru