Edward Snowden fled to Russia after exposing top-secret NSA surveillance programs in 2013 Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...

After five weeks in a Moscow airport, the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum—with permission to live, and possibly work, in Russia for at least a year.

Fugitive US intelligence operative Edward Snowden has been granted a three-year residence permit in Russia, his lawyer said on Thursday, in the latest blow to Moscow’s deeply strained relations with ...

Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia after leaking classified information about the NSA’s surveillance practices. Snowden, who worked as a National Security Agency systems ...

Update, 11 a.m.: National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has not received the documents needed to leave a Moscow airport, his lawyer told reporters. National Guard seizes over a million ...

MOSCOW (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left transit zone of a Moscow airport and entered Russia after authorities granted him temporary asylum, his lawyer said Thursday. Anatoly ...