BREAKING: Putin: Snowden in Transit Zone of Moscow Airport, Russia Will Not Extradite Him. [View all]
Source: Associated Press
@AP: BREAKING: Putin: Snowden is in transit zone of Moscow airport, Russia will not extradite him.
@Reuters: Edward Snowden is a free man, and the sooner he chooses a destination the better: Russia's Putin #breaking
@Reuters: Putin says Russia security agencies "never worked with [Edward Snowden] and are not working with him today" #breaking
PUTIN SAYS NO TO US REQUEST TO EXTRADITE SNOWDEN
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
— Jun. 25 11:00 AM EDT
NAANTALI, Finland (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and will not be extradited to the United States.
Putin said that Snowden hasn't crossed the Russian border and is free to go anywhere.
Speaking on a visit to Finland Tuesday, he added that Russian security agencies "didn't work and aren't working" with Snowden. He gave no more details.
Commenting on a U.S. request to extradite him, Putin said that Russia doesn't have an extradition agreement with the U.S. and thus wouldn't meet the U.S. request.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nsa-leakers-global-flight-appears-stalled-now
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