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Fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted permission to stay in Russia for three more years, his lawyer says.

His year-long leave to stay in Russia had expired on July 31.

Snowden fled the US in 2013 after leaking details of the National Security Agency’s surveillance and telephone-tapping operations.

The US has charged him with theft of government property and communicating classified information.

Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told
journalists that the request for an extension had been accepted.

“Accordingly, Edward Snowden was given a three-year residence permit,” which will allow him to move about freely and travel abroad, Kucherena said.

www.punchng.com/news/russia-extends-snowdens-stay-by-three-years/

Symphony007: U.s and EU sanctions have driven the russian rubble to it's lowest in history, their economy is in free fall, banks are contracting, no travel list is growing,etc...and russia responds by banning imports of fish, meat and milk from the U.S. What a pathetic country. Ant thinking it's a dinosaur.

shakaz: gotta love that guy.

Funny enough most peeps commenting know little or nothing about snowden.. Well thanks to my roommate who gave me the full gist.

rasputinn: Vladimir and his KGB politics

Missy89:
what if Russia blocks the corridor it granted the US to feed and supply troops in Afghanistan
what if Russia refuse to corporate with sanctioning Iran
what is Russia derail the Nuclear talks

the more the sanctions bit, everyone looses at the end. it would be naive to say that one country will loose and another wont.

Sanctions is a 2 way street. Lithuania and Poland are already complaining as well.

Russia just signed a 5 year deal with Iran to ease sanctions and have increased food imports from Turkey to compensate what they would be loosing from European markets. no one would win a sanction war, everyone has aces up their sleeves.
Sanctions only work on African countries like Zimbabwe

PassingShot:

Well Obama was reported to have directed that the program be stopped.

maryjames9: China is far from being the biggest economy. You could say they are second biggest.

fr3do:

Its not all about the safety of lives and property
They also spied on economic secrets of other countries to the advantage of their economy.

Missy89:
what if Russia blocks the corridor it granted the US to feed and supply troops in Afghanistan
what if Russia refuse to corporate with sanctioning Iran
what is Russia derail the Nuclear talks

the more the sanctions bit, everyone looses at the end. it would be naive to say that one country will loose and another wont.

Sanctions is a 2 way street. Lithuania and Poland are already complaining as well.

Russia just signed a 5 year deal with Iran to ease sanctions and have increased food imports from Turkey to compensate what they would be loosing from European markets. no one would win a sanction war, everyone has aces up their sleeves.
Sanctions only work on African countries like Zimbabwe

iiichidodo: Please spare us that excuse...Economic espionage happens everywhere even the economic prosperity or military sophistication of China and Russia has its very foundation embedded in it.These nations don't take kindly to betrayals akin to snowden's and they have been known to initiate hits (killings) overseas...NKVD has a whole department dedicated to that. Snowden should count himself lucky he's dealing with a humane Nation like the US..

willorie:

Gbam!
Indeed, Snowden deserves a jail term
But this Vladimir Putin is really becoming a thorn in the flesh earnestly

He's just seeking for war that US will not grant him cus of his innocent citizens

kernel504: Russia should take a leap from China, strengthen your economy first.Fighting EU and America at the same is hurting her GDP.
There is time for everything, look at it now, China is now the biggest economy in the whole world,once there military measures up with that of America,they will eventually become world power.

ednut1: this guy get liver sha, the USA is good at painting pple as bad with the help of their brainwashing powerful media, while they are no saints either. ISIS they indirectly funded is having a field time in syria and iraq , dem dey look, amerikanz amerikanz

tirtimy:
China is not the biggest economy in the World.

vislabraye:

Thank you a lot. People forget that Russia is a strong country. They have China and other nations to trade with.

manny4life:

Did you say at the moment? If Russia doesn't evaluate this crisis, it will hurt her in the long run and will leave scars on her economy for a long time to come. The leverage is gas that Russia exports to the EU, but I am sure that the EU weighed in on that thoroughly before emerging with sanctions. After the 2009 crisis/blackout, US/EU learned a great deal, something Russia failed to see, these nations have perfected plans to a degree to buffer the effect of gas shortage. For instance, Germany is the LARGEST purchaser of oil and gas, did you know that under Angela Merkel, Germany is gradually and heavily investing into renewable sources of energy? According to a report I read, by 2016, about 40% of Germany's energy will be renewable.... If this is the case, where is the leverage of energy?

According to June 2014, Germany generate 74% of energy by renewable sources http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/14/germany-record-setting-renewables/ Don't know how true 74% is

You speak of the BRICS nations, did you forget quickly that Europe is South Africa's largest exporter of their product which is natural diamonds? How about China, a few ban on few of their products caused a stir on their economy that they had to look inward to help their economy. China isn't growing like the way it did 5 years ago. Brazil and the U.S. have a trade agreement in which Brazil benefits more than the U.S. does, how much business will Russia give to them, and at what price, when compared to their neighbor? As a matter of fact, the BRICS nations have slow growth at the moment, that's why we MINT nations.

Energy is an essential commodity, questions is AT WHAT RATE? The world is looking for greener energy, trying to reduce pollution in the environment. Everyday, you have some nation discovering oil or gas or one thing or the other. Time is coming when oil and gas suppliers will beg to sell their product.

Buchukwu: This Edward snowden is stupid and russia is daring the US, nawa oo.

ikp4succes: Those people who are supporting Russia , how will you feel is someone working in Nigeria took military secret to Cameroon or Ghana...

Me i support the monitoring of Phone calls and all internet data, if Nigeria was doing this by now we would have stopped boko haram

iiichidodo: Russia is denyin Justice to the American Government...Snowden deserves jail time.

Missy89:

Yes of course you can support it in Nigeria. there is no liberty and freedom there.

not the same with the US where the constitution is clearly against such

ikp4succes:

They doing it to protect the lives of US Citizens, is not beta to know what a terrorist is going to do before he/she does it.

prettyboi1989: Russia n its love for injustice. If not for russia's nuclear capability, america wud av done somfin to russia.

Missy89:

not when it violates the constitution.

You don't give up your rights for security. maybe in Nigeria you can

akereconfi: Most people commenting here know little or nothing about this matter.

Emmaomotob: If not for RUSSIA that went at the expense of threat by America to bomb Moscow beyond visible limits,America would be a monopoly nation with nuclear ability,and you know what that means.LONG LIVE RUSSIA,LONG LIVE VLADIMIR PUTIN