Snowden’s temporary asylum document from August 2013.
Yahoo News: Russian investigative journalist: Snowden is 'a sort of ghost'
Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, who co-wrote the definitive books on the post-Soviet security services and the history of the Russian internet, has kept tabs on National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s ongoing exile.
“He is a sort of ghost,” Soldatov told a recent Lawfare podcast. “It looks like he’s there, but since he’s banned from talking to Russian journalists or Moscow-based foreign journalists, … he speaks only to journalists coming specifically to interview him, so they are all approved [by the Russian government] in advance. So he is almost nowhere.”
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WNU Editor: I am not surprised that he still has a security detail around him. He is probably the most wanted man within the U.S. intelligence community (Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is probably number two) .... and he would be a prize if he is brought back to the U.S.. As to the question .... will he come back on his own free will? I doubt it .... spending the next 20 years (or more) in a federal penitentiary is definitely something that he does not want. So living in Russia it is .... whether he likes it or not.
