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Andrei Lugovoi, a former KGB officer and key figure in the investigation into the fatal poisoning of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko, gestures as he speaks to the media at the Ekho Moskvy radio in Moscow, on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2008. Lugovoi, who was No. 2 on the party list of the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 40 seats in the Dec. 2007 elections, has since become a lawmaker in the Russian Parliament's lower house and received the corresponding immunity from prosecution. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)