{"id":5047,"date":"2022-09-26T21:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2022-09-26T21:20:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T21:20:39","slug":"putin-gives-edward-snowden-russian-citizenship-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=5047","title":{"rendered":"Putin Gives Edward Snowden Russian Citizenship: State Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 26, 2022 at 05:04PM Putin Gives Edward Snowden Russian Citizenship: State Media<\/a><\/p>\n

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Within months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some in the US media began to question, \u201cWhere is Edward Snowden? Whistleblower Silent Since Russia Invaded Ukraine\u201d \u2013 as one April\u00a0Newsweek<\/em><\/a>\u00a0headline read. The Ukraine offensive had clearly put the NSA whistleblower in a deeply awkward position, and thus he went relatively silent on Twitter. The Russian government had provided him asylum since he fled there from Hong Kong in June of 2013 \u2013 as he was a \u201cwanted\u201d man for exposing illegal mass domestic spying by the NSA and US intelligence.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday, Russian state media is out with an explosive headline and new development regarding Snowden\u2019s fate: \u201cPutin signs decree granting Snowden Russian citizenship,\u201d\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to state-run RIA Novosti. TASS too is reporting that\u00a0Putin has given Edward Snowden Russian citizenship<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Per the official Russian presidential decree\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIn accordance with paragraph \u2018a\u2019 of Article 89 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, I decide: to accept the following persons in the citizenship of the Russian Federation: Edward Joseph Snowden, born June 21, 1983, in the United States of America.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This is absolutely huge development and\u00a0big and hugely consequential Kremlin thumb in the eye to Washington<\/strong>\u00a0at a moment the two sides are inching closer to direct confrontation and war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

developing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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via Infowars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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