Spy murder suspect 'to run for parliament'

The sole suspect in the radiation poisoning death of Kremlin foe Alexander Litvinenko has been nominated to run for parliament on a pro-Kremlin ultranationalist party’s ticket, according to a Russian news agency report today.

Liberal Democratic Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that Andrei Lugovoy a former KGB officer who Britain has identified as the main suspect in last year’s murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko, would be No. 2 on the party’s list in December’s parliamentary elections, the Interfax news agency reported.