The New York Times Breaking News: Russia Grants 1- Year Asylum to Edward Snowden
After a month holed up in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor wanted by the United States for leaking details of surveillance programs, has received temporary refugee status in Russia and left the airport, his lawyer said Thursday.
The movement from the airport’s international transit zone marked a significant change in Mr. Snowden’s status for the first time since he left the United States and began leaking details of the National Security Agency’s surveillance. The refugee status in Russia marks the first formal support from another government for the 30-year-old leaker, and seems likely to elicit strong objections from the United States.
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The movement from the airport’s international transit zone marked a significant change in Mr. Snowden’s status for the first time since he left the United States and began leaking details of the National Security Agency’s surveillance. The refugee status in Russia marks the first formal support from another government for the 30-year-old leaker, and seems likely to elicit strong objections from the United States.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/eu...
BULLETIN - AP/Moscow: "A Russian lawyer for National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has left the transit zone of Moscow' airport and entered Russia. Anatoly Kucherena said Thursday that Snowden was issued papers that allowed him to leave Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport where he was stuck since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23."
--AFP/Moscow: Lawyer says Snowden granted asylum for one year in Russia -- in "safe place"; location won't be disclosed.
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