NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been marooned in a Moscow airport's transit zone since arriving from Hong Kong three weeks ago.
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Russian supporters of NSA leaker Edward Snowden rally with posters protesting surveillance in Moscow on Friday. |
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| Edward Snowden: Seeking asylum in Russia. |
MOSCOW — Russian immigration officials said they have not received an application from Edward Snowden, the U.S. National Security Agency leaker who wants to get asylum in Russia.
Snowden arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport on a flight from Hong Kong on June 23, apparently intending to board a flight to Cuba. But he did not get on that flight and is believed to have spent the last three weeks marooned in the airport's transit zone.
But the Interfax news agency quoted Russian migration service head Konstantin Romodanovsky as saying no asylum request had been received as of Saturday.