| 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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Friday, August 2, 2013
Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum
Russia Grants Snowden 1-Year Asylum
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