Edward Snowden is now a Russian citizen. He reports Tass, according to which Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree granting citizenship to the former employee of the National Security Agency who in recent years had unveiled mass surveillance programs in the United States. Accused by the US Department of Justice of violating the Espionage act and of theft of government property, he fled to Russia in June 2013, where, after staying for a month in a Moscow airport terminal for presenting himself with an invalidated passport, he had obtained the right to asylum.
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