Former CIA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden is displayed on a screen as he speaks during a video conference to present his book titled “Permanent Record,” in Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 17, 2019. (Jörg Carstensen//DPA/AFP via Getty Images) Edward Snowden , a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who leaked information about the agency’s widespread domestic surveillance operations during the Obama administration, has received a Russian passport and taken the citizenship oath, Russian media quoted his lawyer as saying Friday.
Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, was cited by Russian state media TASS as saying that his client on Thursday received his Russian passport and pledged allegiance to his host country Russia , where he fled to from the United States in 2013 after making a series of explosive disclosures.
Kucherena told the outlet that he had seen Snowden a day earlier and he was doing well.
It comes around three months after Russian […]
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