Answering a question of a British reporter at a news conference in Moscow yesterday, Lugovoy, who is charged by the UK prosecution with murder of Litvinenko, said that

Berezovsky charged in Russia on several charges is now living in Great Britain, where he was granted the status of a political refugee. Despite inquiries of the Russian prosecution, Britain refuses to extradite him to Moscow. At the same time, London claims that Russia should extradite Lugovoy despite the Russian constitution that does not permit extradition of Russian citizens to other countries.