Salon.com > Interfax http://www.salon.com Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:11:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Report: Snowden asks for political asylum in Russia http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/report_snowden_asks_for_political_asylum_in_russia_ap/ http://www.salon.com/2013/07/01/report_snowden_asks_for_political_asylum_in_russia_ap/#comments Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13347414 The Interfax news agency says a Russian consular official has confirmed that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia.

Interfax cited Kim Shevchenko, the duty officer at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s consular office in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, as saying that Snowden’s representative, Sarah Harrison, handed over his request Sunday.

Snowden has been caught in legal limbo in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport since his arrival from Hong Kong on June 23. The U.S. has annulled his passport, and Ecuador, where he has hoped to get asylum, has been coy about offering him shelter.Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says Snowden will have to stop leaking U.S. secrets if he wants to get asylum in Russia, but adds that Snowden has no plan to quit doing so.

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