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> Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't. Ah, the old “Snowden fled to Russia” trope. That’s false. He was in Russia when the US cancele
by colejohnson66 8y ago
> Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't.
Ah, the old “Snowden fled to Russia” trope. That’s false. He was in Russia when the US canceled his passport. As a consequence of that, he was unable to leave Russia.
- jbharter 8y agoI've heard this too, looking for reputable source....
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- blihp 8y agoIt was a very, very, very well covered story at the time: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/24/edward-snowden-russia-moscow-airport/2582189/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/07/24/edward-... (if you don't like USA Today, which was just the top news source listed in my search results, just poke around for 'snowden airport' around the same time period in your preferred news outlet's archives)
- jbharter 8y agoThanks, I was younger and not as interested in world news at the time.
- votepaunchy 8y agoAssange was granted Ecuadorian citizenship. Since Snowden was destined for Ecuador he likely could have requested the same.
- Arnt 8y agoAnd might well have been granted it. But he couldn't teleport there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident