‘Snowden’s life is still in danger,’ Russia says [View all]
Source: WaPo
MOSCOW — Russia will likely approve NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s application to continue his asylum in the next few days, a Russian migration official said Friday.
“I do not see any problem in extending the temporary political asylum,” Vladimir Volokh, head of a key advisory council to Russia’s federal migration service, told Russian news service Interfax. “Circumstances have not changed. Snowden’s life is still in danger; therefore the Federal Migration Service has every basis to prolong his status.”
Snowden’s Russian attorney, Anatoly Kucherena, told reporters on Wednesday that Snowden had formally applied to stay in Russia past the expiration of his current temporary asylum on July 31.
Russian authorities awarded him that status last summer, after Snowden became stranded in a Moscow airport en route from Hong Kong to Cuba. U.S. authorities had revoked his passport after Snowden, a former NSA contractor, revealed himself as the source of massive leaks detailing the inner workings of U.S. intelligence services, first published in The Washington Post and The Guardian.
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