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Instead of sitting in a British courtroom, the man suspected by London detectives of the fatal poisoning of the former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko will now sit in Russia's Lower House of Parliament.
As such, he will be immune from extradition and prosecution.
The ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party, where Andrei Lugovoy featured at number two on the list, made it comfortably across the 7 per cent election threshold.
"This will give Russia another tool to avoid extraditing him," said Dmitry Suslov, a political analyst.
Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky even suggested that Lugovoy might take up a post on the Duma's security committee, which oversees intelligence issues and co-operation.
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