Edward Snowden remains at Moscow airport as asylum offers arrive (seems he's closer to leaving)

[Cleita]

Los Angeles Times
By Sergei L. Loiko
July 6, 2013, 4:38 a.m.
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MOSCOW -- Fugitive NSA leaker Edward Snowden was still holed up at Moscow's Sheremetyevo-2 airport as finally -- out of two dozen countries to which he applied -- Venezuela and Nicaragua extended offers of asylum.<snip>

<snip>“For Snowden asylum in Venezuela could be the best decision,” Alexei Pushkov, the chief of the Parliament’s lower house foreign relations committee, tweeted. “This country is in sharp conflict with the United States.

“He can’t live at Sheremetyevo, can he,” the lawmaker wrote.

Despite the offers extended Saturday, Snowden still cannot leave the airport's transit zone, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said.

“He can’t buy a ticket and travel anywhere until he gets a valid set of traveling documents,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “For this reason he was not on the list of passengers for a Havana-bound flight today and he hasn’t booked a seat for a Monday flight either.<snip>

More at link:http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-snowden-moscow-20130706,0,6155930.story

I predict he will get his papers and will be able to leave next week. It seems the Russians are willing to cooperate with Venezuela in this regard. They will have to give him papers to travel it seems.

[randome]

1. It also remains to be seen whether he actually wants to live in Venezuela or Nicaragua.

They may put the same conditions on him that Putin did.

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[Cleita]

2. I doubt it.

Have you seen this twitter account?

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SnowdenAsylum&src=hash

"Welcome to Venezuela, a free, dignified & sovereign territory, no longer controlled by US interests."

So I doubt if we can make them put those conditions on his extradition.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. UPDATE:Edward Snowden offered asylum in Bolivia by President Evo Morales

Bolivian President Evo Morales says Snowden is welcome in his country.
He said Saturday he is making the offer as a protest against the U.S. and European nations he accuses of temporarily blocking his flight home from a Moscow summit because they suspected he might have Snowden on board.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57592523/edward-snowden-offered-asylum-in-bolivia-by-president-evo-morales/

for every action there is a reaction

[Cleita]

5. I saw that. It's another choice he has. n/t