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Snowden To Leave Moscow Airport, Change in Plans See Update Below

Edward Snowden © Collage: Voice of Russia

Update: Snowden decides to not leave airport.  Lawyer says thank you to everyone for their support. Updates added below.

Edward Snowden leaves Sheremetyevo airport. LIVE REPORT

Former CIA employee Edward Snowden may leave the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport within the next few hours, the Voice of Russia correspondent reports.

“The American is preparing to leave now. New clothes will be brought to him. Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena will hand him a paper entitling him to leave the Sheremetyevo Airport’s transit area,” the source familiar with the situation said.

Snowden, who had been living in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport since the day he arrived from Hong Kong on June 23, applied for temporary asylum in Russia last week.

His request followed weeks of searching for a way to leave the country, which he intended to pass briefly on his way to another destination and where he was stranded because the US revoked his travel passport.

  • Snowden thanks everyone for support but he will be staying in the transit zone for now, said Kucherena.

  • Lawyer Kucherena approached journalists.

  • Snowden may leave the airport in 5 mitutes, reported VoR correspondent.

  • Earlier Kucherena told Russian journalists that Snowden plans to settle in Russia and is ready to begin a court battle if the country’s migration service denies his asylum plea.

  • Snowden is propably to make a statement upon leaving the airport. If not, his advisor Kucherena will comment on the plans of NSA leaker, reported RT.

  • Seems there’s gonna be a car chase for Snowden once he leaves the airport. Eyewitnesses report that a lot of tv reporters parked outside Terminal E.
    Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_07_24/Edward-Snowden-leaves-Sheremetyevo-airport-LIVE-REPORT-7522/

  • Edward Snowden is expected to come out Sheremetyevo airport soon accompanied with his lawyer Anatoly Kucherena.

  • Former CIA employee Edward Snowden can leave the transit zone of the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, a source in the airport services told Inerfax.

  • Snowden’s lawyer Kucherena brings him a pair of jeans, t-shirt and Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” novel, reports RT.

  • Snowden collects his luggage at “airport’s recreation room”, reports Interfax.

  • Edward Snowden submits documents at Immigration checkpoint in Sheremetyevo airport, according to Interfax.

  • Snowden has been handed over his travel documents from Russia’s Immigration Service, reports Interfax.

  • Kucherena and Snowden conversed in the transit zone, according to an Interfax source.

  • Snowden has received travel papers allowing him to leave airport which had been issued by the Federal Migration Service, reports TASS quoting Sheremetyevo airport source. The information hasn’t been officially confirmed yet.

  • Fuss at the airport as journalists are waiting for Snowden to leave the tranzit zone.

    Snowden airport people wait

  • Russian lawyer Kucherena carries a package for Edward Snowden, the Voice of Russia correspondent Polina Chernitsa reports. No one has seen the immigration documents.

  • Lawyer Kucherena is at the airportSnowden lawyer leaves airport

  • Lawyer Kucherena says that the consultations with Edward Snowden will last for an hour.

  • “We do not have any information,” the Russian Federal Migration Service press office siad.

  • Russian Federal Migration Service gives no comment on Snowden

  • Lawyer Kucherena says he will “comment after my meeting with Edward.”

  • Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena is at airport, he enteres the tranzit zone.

  • “Passenger Snowden is no longer in the recreation room, he remains in the transit area. He has collected his personal belongings from this room,” airport staff said.

  • Snowden has left the recreation room for personnel on duty at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport but still remains in the airport’s transit area.

  • Snowden collects belongings from Sheremetyevo Airport’s recreation room – source

  • Airport staff ask journalists to give more space for Snowden at the exit of the tranzit zone at the Sheremetyevo airport – the VoR correspondent says.

  • Anatoly Kucherena is expected to bring the papers Snowden needs to leave the transit zone of the airport.

  • Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena expected to meet NSA leaker shortly regarding entry permission.
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    “He has not crossed the border,” the source familiar with the situation said. Snowden is still in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. The border services have not received an official request from the Federal Migration Service, which would allow Snowden to leave the airport’s transit area.
    Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_07_24/Edward-Snowden-leaves-Sheremetyevo-airport-LIVE-REPORT-7522/
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