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1. News - World - RUSSIA

   Assange denies Snowden interrogated in Russia

   Posted Aug 16th 2013, 06:10pm by AFP

   ... Agence France-Presse in Sydney WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied speculation that US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden was interrogated by Russian authorities, telling Australian media they had “behaved well”. Snowden, who is wanted by Washington on espionage charges linked to his disclosures about the secret details of US surveillance programmes, was granted ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1297233/assange-denies-snowden-interrogated-russia
2. News - World - RUSSIA

   Edward Snowden slips out of Moscow airport into hiding

   Posted Aug 01st 2013, 08:22pm by Reuters

   ... by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden’s father on Thursday thanked President Vladimir Putin on Thursday after Russia granted his son a year’s temporary asylum. “I am so thankful to the Russian ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1293617/snowden-granted-refugee-status-russia-leaves-moscow-airport
3. News - World - RUSSIA

   Russia’s Putin ‘determined’ Snowden case will not hurt US ties

   Posted Jul 26th 2013, 09:08pm by Reuters

   ... stuck at a Moscow airport for more than a month. Russia has refused to hand over Snowden, who leaked details of secret US electronic surveillance programmes to British and US media, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1291495/russias-putin-determined-snowden-case-will-not-hurt-us-ties
4. News - World - RUSSIA

   Snowden still stuck at Moscow airport after permit mix-up

   Posted Jul 24th 2013, 08:00pm by AFP

   ... area. But Snowden did not go through passport control and lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who is assisting him with his request for temporary asylum in Russia, said he did not have the pass he needed. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1289887/russia-gives-snowden-document-allowing-him-leave-airport
5. News - World - RUSSIA

   Putin says US ties more important than Snowden ‘squabbles’

   Posted Jul 17th 2013, 07:48pm by AFP

   ... intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, does not rule out applying for Russian citizenship, a lawyer assisting him said later on Wednesday. “He does not rule ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284803/us-ties-more-important-snowden-squabbles-says-russias-putin
6. News - World - RUSSIA

   Snowden applies for temporary asylum in Russia

   Posted Jul 16th 2013, 07:52pm by AFP

   ... Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has applied for temporary asylum in Russia, a pro-Kremlin lawyer said on Tuesday, after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of “trapping” him in the country. Snowden, wanted by the United States for revealing sensational details of its vast spying operations, is now spending a fourth week in the transit lounge at Moscow’s ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1284106/snowden-applies-russia-asylum-lawyer
7. News - World - RUSSIA

   Russia says yet to receive Snowden asylum bid

   Posted Jul 15th 2013, 09:33pm by AFP

   ... on Monday that no such application had come in yet. “There have been no applications from Edward Snowden as of today,” he told Interfax. The speaker of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, said ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1283405/russia-says-yet-receive-snowden-asylum-bid
8. News - World - RUSSIA

   Obama's Russia reset goes into reverse gear after Putin snub

   Posted Aug 09th 2013, 12:00am by BLOOM, NYT

   ... The situation with Snowden "was hardly created by us," he added. Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee, said the move heralded the end ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1295383/obamas-russia-reset-goes-reverse-gear-after-putin-snub
9. News - World - RUSSIA

   Outrage among Russian public forces release of Navalny until appeal

   Posted Jul 19th 2013, 03:14pm by AFP

   ... furious over the almost month-long stay in a Moscow airport of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who has now applied for asylum in Russia. The New York Times said Obama could now cancel ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1286165/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-freed-temporarily-await-appeal