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August 1, 2013 12:22 pm -04

Snowden leaves neutral confines of Moscow airport, enters Russia

According to the Associated Press, Edward Snowden has finally escaped his Moscow airport purgatory and arrived in Russian territory. The NSA whistleblower had been granted temporary asylum by the Putin-led government after Bolivia and Venezuela also offered to take the fugitive, according to an earlier report. The NSA's arch-enemy will granted a year's stay, according to his Russian lawyer, and will be able to re-apply to remain after that. Now that his Russian residency has been established, most outlets expect a strong reaction from the US government after it assured Moscow that Snowden wouldn't face the death penalty if deported. For its part, Russia said it has no intention of handing over the man who blew the lid off the pervasive PRISM monitoring program.

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