National Security Agency: Vladimir Volokh

Vladimir Volokh: A Russian immigration official indicated Wednesday that his government would soon give the former National Security Agency contractor a document enabling him to leave Sheremetyevo Airport and stay in Russia temporarily, under tight official constraints, according to The Star. Vladimir Volokh, head of the public council of the Russian Federal Migration Service, said Snowden would be handed a certificate stating that he had applied for political asylum. Snowden will only be allowed to stay in places designated by Russian law enforcement agencies, Volokh told the Ekho Moskvy radio station and MOSCOW After a month camped out in a transit area of Moscows international airport, fugitive Edward Snowden on Wednesday received clean clothing and a copy of Fyodor Dostoyevskys Crime and Punishment but no final word that he would be allowed into the country after having leaked U.S. surveillance secrets, his lawyer said. Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela have offered to give Snowden refuge, but pressure from Washington and concerns that the United States or Europe might block him from travelling through their airspace have prevented the fugitive from leaving Russia . Snowdens lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, said Wednesday that his client, who has been charged in the U.S. with leaking classified information, has started to learn Russian and is preparing for an extended sojourn in the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.