Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena was reported as saying that Snowden got the passport and took the oath on Thursday, about three months after Russian President Vladimir Putin granted him citizenship.
The reports did not specify whether Snowden has renounced his U.S. citizenship. The United States revoked his passport in 2013, leading to Snowden being stranded in a Moscow airport for weeks after arriving from Hong Kong, aiming to reach Ecuador. Russia eventually granted him permanent residency. He married American Lindsay Mills in 2017 and the couple has two children.
Snowden leaked documents on the National Security Agency’s collection of data passing through the infrastructure of U.S. phone and internet companies. He also released details about the classified U.S. intelligence budget and the extent of American surveillance on foreign officials, including the leaders of U.S.-allied countries.
Snowden says he made the disclosures because he believed the U.S. intelligence community had gone too far and infringed on civil liberties.
I have lived in USA for years, and I love that country. that said, IMO this is a hero (and Julian Assange is another).
davidstevens111 This could work for 🤡IQ45! Former U.S. president and Russian operative comrade Donald J. Trump, who fled prosecution after revealing/selling highly classified material, has received his Russian citizens passport and fled! “Well done and welcome home” Putin said Friday… 😎🇨🇦
To hell with his war crimes criminals nation passport
mtdukes Why wasn’t he conscripted. Looks healthy to me and he’s age qualified
What a surpriese
You know that Donnie has a keen interest in this action.
Good. You ain't welcome here.
He probably has more freedoms there. Good for him.
I guess now if he should be assassinated, the powers that be who put out the hit would be assassinating a Russin citizen....
L’espion russe est régularisé !
So just making his rentboy status official
He can fly to China and Syria only 😂😂😂
CONGRATULATIONS !!!! AND THANK YOU FOR BEING BRAVE AND EXPOSING OUR HIGHLY CORRUPT GOVERNMENT !!!!!
Well, what alternative does he have? Pretty clear America is out to persecute him. Good luck to him.
Он не что иное, как гнилая заплесневелая картошка
Snowden blocked me after I asked if he was rewarded with a looted Ukrainian washing machine. SnowdenFlake
What a looser. Represents as Truth Seeker, switches teams. Now a Russian citizen, Country of suppression, aggression and lies.
Did he have a choice?
Now send him to the front line.
New russian draftee. Ukraine is waiting 4 you. We'll be glad to present you as a gift to US authorities.
Good, hope he uses that passport to go somewhere we can get our hands on the treasonous prick.
A true patriot
Maybe they'll send him to Ukraine?
So we can expect him to be sent to the front lines in Ukraine soon? 🤔
We can still get to him if we really care to do so.
So that means he is now eligible to be sent to the frontlines.
Traitor
Snowden ready mudafucka, to the front line at Ukrainian! Bad moment for get deprecated passport XD
Well done Russia for giving citizenship to Snowden, a very wise decision. Now the man can rest in peace.
ready for full mobilisation ?
Imagine being a champion of free speech and taking refuge in Russia. 🤣 What a joke.
Good for him. Hope he likes it there. How about those winters!
Snowden you should visit Bakhmut, I heard it's lovely.
Traitor
Traitor
Leaking authoritarian surveillance policies to the public just to defect to an authoritarian autocracy is not a big win. You know what is a big win though? The deals on the value menu from McDonalds
Snowden and Russia deserve each other. I hope that Mr. Snowden enjoys all of the great personal freedoms that Mother Russia offers its citizens.
taking the oath is protocol for anyone seeking citizenship (in most countries?), so yeah.
It’s such a sad story that Americans turned their back on the guy who told everyone about the messed up stuff our government does. Not a peep or cry for freedom.
Whistleblowers are heroes and should be protected in this country not forced to run to other countries. We the people deserve to know the truth.
Doing a little duolingo
Good. He needs to stay over there and play Russian.
I think he needs to show loyalty to his new country by taking up arms and going to fight in Ukraine but he has NO 🏀🏈⚽️⚽️⚾️
… or else what? Putin: “Ok now go fight Ukraine. Front of the line.”
Send him to the front!!!
And sometime in history we will be reading about his accidental death 🤔🙄🪦
Now for all you snowden supporters WTF
While the U.S. certainly has big problems, I hope Snowden doesn't think that he's found a bastion of freedom in Russia.
gonna be on the run for-ev-er!
Funny how everyone here seems to have skipped over the part of our own Country spying on us...
Shame on him!
He has gone all-in on being a traitor to the United States.
The man is a traitor.
[Before the war, Zhaharova opened the 'mockery mode' for the West - Bilibili] Zaharova, a lying clown in the Kremlin, we think we should expose her🤔
Always a sign of innocence when you take refuge with your country's enemy.
Traitor.
Pay more attention to this than to him， [Historical video: Hitler's response to Roosevelt's German threat theory before World War II - Bilibili] Is Russia much like Hitler in World War II?
Don't worry, this traitor will be dealt with by some organization sooner or later😃
Right were he belongs
wow. to write this article without the mention of the Bolivia plane incident is probably journalistic malpractice. be better
Remember this is permanent. we definitely won’t let you come back to the U. S.
Is he thinking of traveling? Will he be drafted? Becoming a refugee?
Literally a Russian Spy
Can't blame him after being treated like sh!t by America.
Good riddance, Comrade.
😂
Considering that the US forced down a Bolivian diplomatic plane based on the belief Snowden was on it, there are few, if any, places he can go without being renditioned.
What a drag to be stuck in Russia forever. Snowden is now owned by Vladimir Putin.
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