Snowden Granted One-Year Asylum In Russia

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 1, 2013 @01:25AM from the nobel-still-in-the-works dept.

New submitter kc9jud writes "The BBC is reporting that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia. According to his lawyer, Snowden has received the necessary papers to leave the transit zone at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, and the airport press office is reporting that Snowden left the airport at 14:00 local time (10:00 GMT). A tweet from Wikileaks indicates that Snowden has been granted temporary asylum and may stay in the Russian Federation for up to one year." Reader Cenan adds links to coverage at CNN, and other readers have pointed out versions of the story at Reuters and CBS.

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Re:Don't EVER be a freedom-loving libertarian by johanw · 2013-08-01 04:01 · Score: 1, Redundant

There is no really left party in the US as far as I can see. The two largest are very right wing (democrats) end extremist right wing (republicans). I don't know how left the American socialist party really is, here the party who calls itself social democrats and even the combination of green and former communists have also embraced the economic aspects of neoliberalism.