MOSCOW: Former CIA employee and NSA contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday left the Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport after he was granted one year temporary asylum in Russia.
“I have just handed over to him papers from the Russian Immigration Service. They are what he needs to leave the transit zone,” Snowden’s Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena told Interfax.
Snowden has already left the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, a media person at the scene has confirmed.
Edward Snowden, who is charged with espionage in the United States, leaked confidential information that showed the NSA collects data of phone records and Internet communication of American citizens.
