Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum

Edward Snowden gets to leave Moscow airport, finally.  The Russkies have given Snowden a one-year temporary asylum to their country.

Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s Russian lawyer, told the media he handed Snowden asylum papers Thursday and that Snowden’s whereabouts would be kept secret for reasons of security. Snowden would choose his own place of residence, but it would not be an embassy, the lawyer said. Russia Today tweeted that Kucherena said Snowden “is ready to talk to press, but he needs a day for adaptation.”