Russia Protector of Human rights grants Snowden another 3 years to stay safely

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Snowden makes first public appearance, secretly visits Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre
Published time: August 05, 2014 17:18
Edited time: August 05, 2014 19:40
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Edward Snowden (AFP Photo / The Guardian)


The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has visited Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in his first public appearance since coming to Russia a year ago. Reporters were hardly able to recognize the former CIA employee without his signature look glasses.

The NSA whistleblower apparently decided to mark a year of asylum in Russia by making a public appearance. He attended the Tsar's Bride opera in Moscow’s historic Bolshoi Theatre.

Snowden slipped in almost unnoticed. He sat in one of the theatre’s boxes, admiring Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera that recounts a tragic love story during the time of Ivan the Terrible’s reign in Russia.

Snowden publically promised to study Russian culture when he was granted asylum in August last year.


In June 2013, the former NSA contractor landed in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in transit from Hong Kong, with Ecuador as his final destination.

After Snowden leaked sensitive US intelligence, Washington charged him with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communication of classified intelligence to an unauthorized person, canceling his passport upon arrival in Moscow. This led to the leaker getting stranded in the transit zone until Russia granted him temporary asylum.


His Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told RT that during the time Snowden was holed up in the airport he brought him books by prominent Russian authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, and the classic 12-volume History of the Russian state by 19th century historian Nikolay Karamzin - all of those books in English.

The State Academic Bolshoi Theater, in Moscow (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vyatkin)

At the same time, according to Kucherena, Snowden promised to learn Russian. When Snowden was granted asylum, he was taken to an undisclosed “safe place” and has not been seen in public since. During this time he has made a few videos and appeared in teleconferences and interviews.

In August last year, Life news published a photo of a man it claimed was the first showing US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden in Moscow. The image showed a casually-dressed man, with a goatee and glasses, pushing a supermarket trolley full of groceries across a road. However the photo was blurry and it was hard to establish the man’s identity.

Snowden filed an official petition on July 9 to extend his asylum in Russia for another year. The whistleblower can stay in the country while his application is being processed. Currently, Snowden holds a three-year post as Rector of the University of Glasgow and serves on the Freedom of the Press Foundation board of directors.

 

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Snowden granted 3-yr residence permit - lawyer
Published time: August 07, 2014 10:09
Edited time: August 07, 2014 12:57
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Edward Snowden.(AFP Photo / Frederick Florin)

Edward Snowden has received a residence permit in Russia, which is valid for three years, starting on August 1, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer announced.

Snowden's life in Russia: ‘Much happier than be unfairly tried in US’

“On the first of August he received a three-year residence permit,” lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told reporters.

He added that Snowden had not asked for political asylum.

“He will be able to travel freely within the country and go abroad. He’ll be able to stay abroad for not longer than three months,” Kucherena said.

The lawyer said Snowden will hold a press conference in Russia as soon as it will be possible.

The former NSA contractor will be able to apply for the Russian citizenship in five years.

“A foreign citizen, who got a residence permit, will certainly be able to apply for citizenship,” Kucherena said.

Edward Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia a year ago. It expired July 31.

He left the US and went to Hong Kong in May 2013, from where he leaked confidential files to mass media concerning the NSA’s overwhelming surveillance.

Member of the Public Chamber, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena at the press conference on Edward Snowden's case.(RIA Novosti / Grigoriy Sisoev)

Snowden then planned to seek refuge in Cuba, but found himself stranded at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, after his American passport was annulled by US authorities.

Kucherena dismissed a letter from the US Prosecutor General’s office to the Russian Ministry of Justice as insufficient grounds for handing Snowden over to the US.

“There has been no request which complies with international law,” the lawyer said.

Edward Snowden has not yet made up his mind whether he wants Russian citizenship.

“By all means he is homesick," his lawyer said. "It was hard for him to find himself far from home, especially for the first time. Of course, in the future Edward will make up his mind on whether to stay in Russia and apply for citizenship or to leave for the US. He hasn’t done this yet.”

If Edward Snowden does one day travel back to the US, it’s not going to be extradition, his lawyer assured.

“No extradition is possible under Russian law,” he said. “He has not committed any crime. He faces no charges in Russia.”

Snowden’s security in Russia is being ensured by a private firm, Kucherena said.

“He’s without state protection and he can’t possibly have it. To arrange state protection you have to go through many bureaucratic procedures.”

Kucherena also told reporters that Snowden was satisfied with his job in Russia, as he was able to continue his profession and work in the sphere of computer technology. The former NSA contractor’s Russian salary is adequate, the lawyer added.

 

[Nike]

the OP article title is hilarious, Russia Protector of Human Rights? and then how about Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Schekochikhin, Galina Starovoitova, Sergei Yushenkov, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Mikhael Trepashkin, Igor Sutyagin and Velentin Danilov? Surely they have been cared by the Russian Authority with Russian style of Human Rights protection

 

[vostok]

the OP article title is hilarious, Russia Protector of Human Rights? and then how about Anna Politkovskaya, Yuri Schekochikhin, Galina Starovoitova, Sergei Yushenkov, Stanislav Markelov, Anastasia Baburova, Mikhael Trepashkin, Igor Sutyagin and Velentin Danilov? Surely they have been cared by the Russian Authority with Russian style of Human Rights protection

In Russia, there are no secret prisons. Now in the United States is more prisoners per capita than it was in the Soviet Union during the Gulag. Russia is the place where dissedents fighting against American world tyranny can hide. So Russia has the right to the title in modern world.

 

[Hasbara Buster]

I don't even want to think about what the American regime would have done to him, had Russia extradited him.

 

[pher]

good job, Putin. 3 years later welcom snowden come to China for asylum. Let play US in turn.

 

[Nike]

In Russia, there are no secret prisons. Now in the United States is more prisoners per capita than it was in the Soviet Union during the Gulag. Russia is the place where dissedents fighting against American world tyranny can hide. So Russia has the right to the title in modern world.

You Russian is no need of secret prison, but you need much arsenic to do the job indeed.

I think, is kinda bullshit to me when some Nations starting to calling themselves as Human rights protector or crap like that. US, Russia, India, China, Indonesia is at same level of footing, they will do everything for her National Interest, and it doesn't matter if they abusing their power and violating their own citizens human rights as long as they can achieve their objective or eliminating everyone deemed hindered their way. As you can see, i am more of the ardent follower of Realism Politics, sometimes state must coerce their way and abruptly violating their own citizen human rights and liberal value to reach their objective.

 

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Snowden makes first public appearance, secretly visits Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre
Published time: August 05, 2014 17:18
Edited time: August 05, 2014 19:40
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Edward Snowden (AFP Photo / The Guardian)


The US whistleblower Edward Snowden has visited Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in his first public appearance since coming to Russia a year ago. Reporters were hardly able to recognize the former CIA employee without his signature look glasses.

The NSA whistleblower apparently decided to mark a year of asylum in Russia by making a public appearance. He attended the Tsar's Bride opera in Moscow’s historic Bolshoi Theatre.

Snowden slipped in almost unnoticed. He sat in one of the theatre’s boxes, admiring Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera that recounts a tragic love story during the time of Ivan the Terrible’s reign in Russia.

Snowden publically promised to study Russian culture when he was granted asylum in August last year.


In June 2013, the former NSA contractor landed in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in transit from Hong Kong, with Ecuador as his final destination.

After Snowden leaked sensitive US intelligence, Washington charged him with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communication of classified intelligence to an unauthorized person, canceling his passport upon arrival in Moscow. This led to the leaker getting stranded in the transit zone until Russia granted him temporary asylum.


His Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told RT that during the time Snowden was holed up in the airport he brought him books by prominent Russian authors such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, and the classic 12-volume History of the Russian state by 19th century historian Nikolay Karamzin - all of those books in English.

The State Academic Bolshoi Theater, in Moscow (RIA Novosti / Vladimir Vyatkin)

At the same time, according to Kucherena, Snowden promised to learn Russian. When Snowden was granted asylum, he was taken to an undisclosed “safe place” and has not been seen in public since. During this time he has made a few videos and appeared in teleconferences and interviews.

In August last year, Life news published a photo of a man it claimed was the first showing US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden in Moscow. The image showed a casually-dressed man, with a goatee and glasses, pushing a supermarket trolley full of groceries across a road. However the photo was blurry and it was hard to establish the man’s identity.

Snowden filed an official petition on July 9 to extend his asylum in Russia for another year. The whistleblower can stay in the country while his application is being processed. Currently, Snowden holds a three-year post as Rector of the University of Glasgow and serves on the Freedom of the Press Foundation board of directors.

What possible benefits Russia is gaining from granting Snowden asylum

 

[vostok]

You Russian is no need of secret prison, but you need much arsenic to do the job indeed.

I think, is kinda bullshit to me when some Nations starting to calling themselves as Human rights protector or crap like that. US, Russia, India, China, Indonesia is at same level of footing, they will do everything for her National Interest, and it doesn't matter if they abusing their power and violating their own citizens human rights as long as they can achieve their objective or eliminating everyone deemed hindered their way. As you can see, i am more of the ardent follower of Realism Politics, sometimes state must coerce their way and abruptly violating their own citizen human rights and liberal value to reach their objective.

USA killing people all over the world with arsenic and without and steal them and hide in secret prisons. You see, now the United States - is a global tyrant. To fight a tyrant, you need a leader, a leader of the free world (or new world or free planet or something). No country of the West does not fit this definition because all of them are part of tyrant. At the moment, the best suited for this role is Russia.

 

[Schutz]

USA killing people all over the world with arsenic and without and steal them and hide in secret prisons. You see, now the United States - is a global tyrant. To fight a tyrant, you need a leader, a leader of the free world (or new world or free planet or something). No country of the West does not fit this definition because all of them are part of tyrant. At the moment, the best suited for this role is Russia.

And if the roles were reversed and Snowden was a Russian, im sure Russia would treat him very well. Oh wait that would never happen because Russia has no bad people or secrets from spying....of course not.

There are no Tyrants in the west, nothing even resembling one, some assholes yeah sure but there are far more tyrannical people in the East. Putins never ending terms in positions of power smell slightly tyrannical to me but there we go, people from Russia really struggle to understand words, people being called a "Nazi" if they go against them, people being called Tyrants just because they go against them and Putin (lol) being called a potential leader of the free world.

The way I see it the only countries that need a new leader are places either ravaged by corruption/religion/poverty, these are not problems that the almighty Putin can overcome as these problems are widespread in his own land even with all the natural resources that comes into it.

And your logic is so flawed, "TO FIGHT A TYRANT WE NEED TO ERECT A LEADER OF THE WORLD WHO RULES EVERYONE, AND HE WILL BE PUTIN, A MAN WHO HAS BEEN IN CONTROL FOR MANY YEARS AND WANTS MANY YEARS MORE!!!"

To create a free world you need quality, absence of religion and free trade/travel with every community in the world, essentially a breaking down of borders and old archaic traditions/mindsets, nothing that looks to happen anytime soon. Tell me would the great Putin be friends with Taliban, ISIS, Al Quaeda..no, there is no free world unless the aforementioned conditions are met.

 

[senheiser]

You Russian is no need of secret prison, but you need much arsenic to do the job indeed.

I think, is kinda bullshit to me when some Nations starting to calling themselves as Human rights protector or crap like that. US, Russia, India, China, Indonesia is at same level of footing, they will do everything for her National Interest, and it doesn't matter if they abusing their power and violating their own citizens human rights as long as they can achieve their objective or eliminating everyone deemed hindered their way. As you can see, i am more of the ardent follower of Realism Politics, sometimes state must coerce their way and abruptly violating their own citizen human rights and liberal value to reach their objective.

lol indonesia = democracy? = know your place

What possible benefits Russia is gaining from granting Snowden asylum

what is russia gaining handing him over to USA now?

 

[Superboy]

What possible benefits Russia is gaining from granting Snowden asylum

secrets

 

[Hasbara Buster]

What possible benefits Russia is gaining from granting Snowden asylum

Hurting the U.S. Is that not enough?

 

[Nike]

lol indonesia = democracy? = know your place


what is russia gaining handing him over to USA now?

flaw as the other, but the transfer of power is going smoothly and never concentrated in one man, no, we never ascending the power into one strong man like Putin. That's why i will proudly call Indonesia as a democratic country today.

Meanwhile the Russian living under the shadow of the great Soviet and old Tsarists Russian empire in which they want to achieve the greatness once more under their delusional dream.

 

[rockstar08]

secrets

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