Well, the deleted tweet was from someone who ought to know, it claimed to reference a report on a Russian 24 hour news channel, not in an article, but it's stil

Well, the deleted tweet was from someone who ought to know, it claimed to reference a report on a Russian 24 hour news channel, not in an article, but it's still suspicious that this isn't on their website. OTOH, Snowden accepting asylum in Venezuela, wouldn't be particularly surprising, since that's where he was originally headed.