Russia debates letting Snowden in from the cold

[struggle4progress]

Fred Weir
The Christian Science Monitor
June 28, 2013

... The official line, expressed by President Vladimir Putin, is that Russia will not hand Snowden over to the US but that he should move on, the sooner the better.

Before he goes, however, Russia's Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, has struck a special committee and invited him in to testify about the impact of NSA spying on Russian citizens.

Sen. Ruslan Gattarov, head of the Federation Council's working group to investigate Snowden's claims, says his main concern is not to investigate the NSA.

He insists the committee's key interest is to explore the alleged abuse-of-trust by giant Internet companies – such as Google, Yahoo, and Facebook, and others with huge slices of the Russian market – which Snowden's revelations suggest have handed over user data to the NSA ...

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130628/russia-debates-letting-snowden-cold

[struggle4progress]

1. Moscow not amused with having to deal with 'China's problem child Snowden'

ANI
Washington, Sat, 29 Jun 2013

... The Kremlin's human-rights envoy, Vladimir Lukin has said that Snowden flying to Moscow has created a serious problem as China's issue has become Russia's issue and now they have to deal with it, Wall Street Journal reports.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has denied US' extradition request and calling him a 'free man' said that it will be better for both Snowden and Russia if he chooses his final destination sooner.

According to the report, Putin's stand made Kremlin's approach clear that Russia would not stop Snowden from escaping the US prosecution but would not help him stay in Russia either ...

According to the report, both Russia and the US have said that they don't want to let Snowden sabotage joint efforts to improve diplomatic relations after a year and a half of mutual hostility ...

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/2013/06/29/28-Moscow-not-amused-with-having-to-deal-with-China-s-problem-child-Snowden-.html

[flamingdem]

2. quote: Snowden vill collaborate mit our vorking group! ... the old collaborate ...

“We invite Edward Snowden to work with us and hope that as soon as he settles his legal status, he will collaborate with our working group and provide us with proof of US intelligence agencies’ access to the servers of Internet firms,” Russia’s Ria Novosti news agency quoted Senator Ruslan Gattarov as saying on Thursday.

* Is that collaborate mit torture device attached or mit aus?

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/06/28/311183/russia-offers-to-cooperate-with-snowden/

[dipsydoodle]

3. Sounds more like the English / German joke.

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c." Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik emthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like fotograf" 20 persent shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by " v".

During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer.

Ze drem vil finali kum tru.

[flamingdem]

5. vat arr zhey doink?

You've got to be kidding. Sivilization ist at rick.

[Demit]

4. Why are you using a weird German dialect?

[flamingdem]

6. Because most people don't distinguish between Russian and German

ven ve're talkink schpies

[Demit]

9. I doubt most people are that ignorant.

[BenzoDia]

7. Doesn't matter at this point. They've gotten or will get everything they need out of him.

[Cirque du So-What]

8. If nothing else

he's drawn sufficient attention to himself that some 'unfortunate accident' may not befall him.