Russia Grants Snowden 1-year Asylum to Live in Russia

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Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. security contractor, left the transit zone at Moscow’s international airport Thursday after Russian authorities granted him temporary asylum.

Anatoly Kucherena, an attorney for Snowden, said documents were issued Thursday allowing Snowden to live and work in Russia for up to one year while his application for permanent political asylum is pending. Snowden, 30, had been stranded in Russia’s Sheremetyevo Airport for more than five weeks.

“I have just seen him off. He has left for a secure location,” Kucherena told the state broadcaster Russia 24.

Kucherena described Snowden as “the most wanted man on the planet” and said he “needed time to adapt to Russian realities.”

In Washington, lawmakers reacted furiously to Russia’s action, warning of serious repercussions in U.S.-Russian relations.

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