Russia shows growing impatience over Snowden's airport stay

[ProSense]

Russia shows growing impatience over Snowden's airport stay

By Timothy Heritage and Steve Gutterman

(Reuters) - Edward Snowden should find another country to seek refuge, a Russian official said on Thursday, signalling Moscow's growing impatience over the former U.S. agency spy contractor's lengthening stay at a Moscow airport.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia had received no request for political asylum from Snowden and he had to solve his problems himself after 11 days in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.

President Vladimir Putin has refused to extradite the American and Russian officials have delighted in his success in staying out of the United States' clutches since revealing details of secret U.S. government surveillance programmes.

But Moscow has also made clear that Snowden is an increasingly unwelcome guest because the longer he stays, the greater the risk of the diplomatic standoff over his fate causing lasting damage to relations with Washington.

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http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/04/usa-security-russia-idINDEE9630C220130704

[DisgustipatedinCA]

1. Boise man stumps toe on doorframe

Rejoinder to both your statement and mine: who cares?

[ProSense]

2. "Rejoinder to both your statement and mine: who cares? "

Snowden?

Clearly, not you, right?

[DisgustipatedinCA]

5. You're correct. I care about our continued surveillance state.

[ProSense]

8. Yeah, that's what they all say, that is until someone mentions Snowden. I know,

On this Independence Day, I'm thankful for Edward Snowden
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023167282

...it's not about Snowden!!!

[cali]

16. bwahahahaha. you gotta love the irony

your, uh, dedicated fascination with all things Snowden, makes your comment quite the example of cognitive dissonance.

You have posted over 100 ops about him.

[MjolnirTime]

9. you care about your preferred narrative. and that is all.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

11. Ok, works for me. But I actually care about our continued surveillance state.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. He's like the house party guest who never leaves

It's the next morning, everyone is hungover and Snowden's ass is still crashed on the couch

[dipsydoodle]

4. Mehran Karimi Nasseri is the record holder for an airport stay - 18 years.

26 August 1988 until July 2006 at Charles de Gaulle airport in France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

[ProSense]

21. I don't think Russia wants Snowden there that long, and he's not a "refugee." n/t

[Tx4obama]

22. Wow !!! n/t

[flamingdem]

6. Is Russia covering the bills? Wikileaks? The money will run out

especially if they're paying for two rooms or more.

Maybe Sarah Hastings, Assange's sometimes lover in the past, has her own room, maybe she's sharing with Snowden. I'd call that purgatory. Chances are she's agitating for a resolution.

The do have a last chance with Iceland on Friday, see my post about Snowden's citizenship being considered - but it might be bumped for fisheries legislation

[HipChick]

13. How is he going to get there without a passport?

Does he have to be there to file?

[flamingdem]

14. If he gets citizenship apparently that would work?

Not sure

[Igel]

17. They could arrange passage.

You don't typically need a passport to leave, esp. once you're in the transit zone. (Depends on the country, I suspect.) His passport is still good for ID, not for travel.

You need one to arrive and stay, of course.

Diplomatic personal could provide coverage for his flight. Dipomatic flights can be chartered. And I'm sure Mother Rossiya has no claim on his staying.

Of course, he could always get on a plane to the US.

[flamingdem]

18. That would probably leave Iceland

because there is a businessman there who offered to fly Snowden on a charter flight direct.

That will hinge on citizenship approval though, unprecedented because they'd have to accelerate it, to be voted on Friday.. if the fisheries issue doesn't take precedence!

I posted this info earlier about the pirate party and their attempt to get Snowden citizenship.

[MineralMan]

7. He might be one one of these flights soon:

AEROFLOT FLIGHT INFORMATION SU102/DL6712
FROM MOSCOW - SHEREMETYEVO (SVO-D) TO NEW YORK - JOHN F KENNEDY INTL (JFK-1)
Flight type: Regular flight Aircraft type: Boeing 777-300ER
Scheduled time of departure: 15:20 Scheduled time of arrival: 17:10
Expected time of departure: 15:20 Expected time of arrival: 17:10
Fact time of departure: 15:44 Fact time of arrival:
Departure timezone: (UTC+04:00) Arrival timezone: (UTC-04:00)

And he'll be flying on a US-made aircraft, too. Always a bonus.

[HipChick]

15. Things sound very prison like at the hotel that he is staying at..

I am taking bets it is only a matter of time that they will plonk him on a US bound plane....

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. Oh dear Gawd don't say PLONK

[treestar]

10. What do they plan to do?

They would have to admit and jail him or deport him to the US. Maybe they regret letting him get to the airport in the first place. But they made their own bed.

[kentuck]

12. Don't take Putin's word as gospel.

Read between the lines. He is one deceptive SOB. Don't be naive.

[ProSense]

20. I guess Snowden should have thought of that before going to Russia. n/t