Asylum: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: Anatoly Kucherena told the news agency Interfax he believes that Moscow could decide within a week whether to grant Snowden asylum, according to The Star. The question of giving him temporary asylum wont take more than a week. I think that in the near future he will have the possibility to leave the Sheremetyevo transit zone, Kucherena was quoted as saying by Interfax and MOSCOW National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden could leave the transit zone of a Moscow airport after Russian authorities review his asylum request, his lawyer said Wednesday. Edward Snowden asks for asylum in Russia (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.