The former U.S. intelligence officials Edward Snowden has received provisional asylum in Russia. He could now stay in Russia for a year, said Snowden Russian lawyer Anatoly Kutscherena on Thursday, according to the Interfax news agency. The White House in Washington said he was “extremely disappointed”.
(Sda) The handle is “not a positive development,” the president said spokesman Jay Carney. U.S. President Barack Obama check the “usefulness” of a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Obama wanted to travel in September before a G20 summit in Moscow for bilateral talks with Putin.
Snowden, in turn, thanked Russia for the granting of asylum. In a statement, released on Thursday at the unveiling of Wikileaks, he accused the U.S. government to disregard domestic and international law.
In the end, however, the law had won, the 30-year-old computer specialist Snowden said a few hours after leaving the transit area at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he had been stuck for more than four weeks. ”He is currently one of the most wanted man in the world”, known as the Kremlin close Kutscherena said.
Snowden was on 23 Coming in June from Hong Kong landed in Moscow and is said to have been present ever since in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo. Out of fear for life and limb in his native Americans had applied for temporary asylum in Russia.
The U.S. is demanding his extradition. Locate the revealer of the U.S. Ausspähprogramme by secret arrest warrant for treason. But Russia rejects deportation Snowden vehemently.
Snowden thanks for asylum in Russia and leaving the airport
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