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Wide of exterior of Kremlin2. Kremlin clock tower and Russian flag 3. Wide of Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, at desk4. Close up of picture on wall of Lugovoi in fatigues 5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eNovember 21 2007\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of exterior of Kremlin\u003cbr/\u003e2. Kremlin clock tower and Russian flag \u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, at desk\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of picture on wall of Lugovoi in fatigues \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in murder of former KGB Agent Alexander Litvinenko:\u003cbr/\u003e''Both myself and the Russian law enforcement authorities have officially requested that the British show the evidence against me several times already, but they still have not provided anything. One can therefore suppose that they do not have any evidence and that everything to do with the Litvinenko affair is being politicised to the maximum possible extent. I'm sure that nothing will in fact be handed over so that they can keep the issue hot to try to further discredit Russia in the international scene.''\u003cbr/\u003eFILE: November 1998\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of Litvinenko during a news conference\u003cbr/\u003eNovember 21 2007\u003cbr/\u003e7.SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko: \u003cbr/\u003e''I feel completely calm about the anniversary of Litvinenko's death. This is a correct description of my own feelings, but on the other hand I of course think that it is likely that the British public and the Russian British diaspora in London will make the greatest possible fuss for the anniversary and will likely prepare some sort of tricks or declarations, but this does not personally worry me in any way because the Russian Constitution already supports me in this matter. I am far more worried about the December 2 elections for the State Duma. I don't give a damn about this raving and barking from across the channel.''\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of watch\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko:\u003cbr/\u003e''What really annoys me is how the British authorities say that Litvinenko was just a dissident writer in London. How can we talk about him being a writer when he was actually a traitor working for money for the English secret services? Let the investigators check up in the ministry of foreign affairs, which is in charge of the secret services - check the paylists, where he got money from - money to his account came from somewhere, this can all be checked.''\u003cbr/\u003e10. Cutaway of Sherlock Holmes book\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Andrei Lugovoi, suspect in murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko: \u003cbr/\u003e''I am proposing that Russia go along its own path and maximises it's defensive capabilities. I will do everything to ensure that Russia stays as great as it ever was and to ignore the experience of the so-called Western democracy, which has never done any good.\" \u003cbr/\u003eFILE  September 17 2007\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Lugovoi at Liberal Democratic Party of Russia congress \u003cbr/\u003e13. Lugovoi and LDPR (Liberal Democratic Party of Russia) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky\u003cbr/\u003eThe former KGB officer named as a suspect in the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last year said on Wednesday the British government's case against him had collapsed and called the slain man a \"traitor.\"\u003cbr/\u003eIn an interview with The Associated Press, Andrei Lugovoi, who is running for parliament in the December 2 elections, said he expects his accusers to use the November 24 anniversary of Litvinenko's agonising death from radiation poisoning to renew their calls for his extradition.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the 43-year-old multimillionaire said the Russian constitution prevents him being handed over and he is not concerned about what British officials and Litvinenko's friends might demand.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't give a damn about this raving and barking from across the channel,\" said Lugovoi, sitting in his office in the Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel overlooking the Moscow River.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Several times, Russia's law enforcement system and I have asked the British to provide proof and the evidence against me,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"So far, they have no proof of any kind, and everything about the Litvinenko case is politicised. I'm sure, they will not provide anything to anyone, and will keep the issue hot to further discredit Russia on the international scene.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLugovoi also alleged that the British were being egged on by fugitives wanted in Russia who are living in London, including the (b) billionaire Boris Berezovsky. \u003cbr/\u003eAs he has in the past, Lugovoi insisted that he would have returned to Britain to discuss the allegations against him if he had been invited. \u003cbr/\u003eHe seemed to taunt the British secret services, saying that the case against him had essentially collapsed.\u003cbr/\u003eLitvinenko, himself a veteran of Russia's security agencies, co-authored a book accusing former colleagues in Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, of involvement in a series of deadly apartment house bombings in 1999. \u003cbr/\u003eHe fled to Britain in 2000 and was granted political asylum a year later.\u003cbr/\u003eJust before his death, Litvinenko was investigating the slaying of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist and determined critic of President Vladimir Putin.\u003cbr/\u003eLitvinenko was poisoned with the rare radioactive isotope polonium-210; on his deathbed he blamed Putin. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Kremlin denies the allegation.\u003cbr/\u003eLugovoi, who had met with Litvinenko the day he fell ill, said Litvinenko has been falsely portrayed by the British government.\u003cbr/\u003e\"What really annoys me is how the British authorities say that Litvinenko was just a dissident writer living in London,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"How can we talk about him being a writer when he was actually a traitor working for the English secret services, for which he was paid money?\"\u003cbr/\u003eHe repeated earlier charges that Litvinenko had approached him about working as an informant for the British foreign intelligence service, MI6.\u003cbr/\u003eLugovoi said the British intelligence had tried to recruit him.\u003cbr/\u003eLast month, London's Daily Mail reported that 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