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Putin Offers Snowden Right to Stay

People › Other ♦ Published: July 1, 2013; 18:39 ♦ (Vindobona)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered fugitive IT specialist Edward Snowden a right to stay as long as he will not further harm the US.

Putin Offers Snowden Right to Stay / Picture: © Wikipedia / Túrelio

On Monday Russian President Putin announced that Russia would never extradite somebody. However, he said that there was one condition for Snowden, who is charged with espionage for publishing details of a secret US government surveillance program. "If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners, as strange as that sounds…

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