Snowden receives Russian passport, takes citizenship oath
Russian news agencies say former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who fled prosecution after revealing highly classified surveillance programs, has received a Russian passport and taken the citizenship oath
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Well ok, his son was born there..
https://twitter.com/Snowden
Edward Snowden: "I'm in Russia because the White House intentionally canceled my passport to trap me here. They downed the President of Bolivia's diplomatic aircraft to prevent me from leaving, and continue to interfere with my freedom of movement to this day.
In case that was unclear."
I just came across this on twitter and he wrote this while retweeting an old tweet from 2013 and then the next tweet is the article about Evo Morales's plane being forced down.