http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29202789
In a Moscow café, Andrei Lugovoi talks to me about a subject close to his heart: betrayal.
The man British police view as prime suspect in the killing of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko is making his TV debut, as host of a documentary series called Traitors. It's about Soviet citizens who betrayed the motherland.
"This programme isn't about politics or propaganda," Mr Lugovoi says.
"It's about the essence of treachery. It's about why eight Soviet citizens with a good upbringing, brilliant education and wonderful careers decided to work for a foreign state and do enormous damage to our country."
The TV trailer for Traitors is very James Bond. To dramatic music, Mr Lugovoi is shown destroying wads of cash in a fire, uncovering secret spy codes in a dusty book and firing a gun. The presenter himself is referred to as the "living legend wanted by British intelligence".
He denies poisoning Alexander Litvinenko in a London sushi bar in 2006, although he believes Mr Litvinenko was a "traitor".
"Based on the statements of Litvinenko's own wife," Mr Lugovoi says, "he was working for the British secret service."
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