Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has formally requested to stay in Russia past July 31, when his one-year asylum status expires, his lawyer said yesterday.
"We have already filed documents to extend his stay in Russia," Anatoly Kucherena told AFP.
Snowden has been in Russia since flying in from Hong Kong in June last year after shaking up America's intelligence establishment with a series of leaks on mass surveillance in the United States and around the world.
He could not travel on from Sheremetyevo however after his passport was revoked, and was holed up in its transit zone for weeks before Moscow granted him a one-year refugee status.
"We have already filed documents to extend his stay in Russia," Anatoly Kucherena told AFP.
Snowden has been in Russia since flying in from Hong Kong in June last year after shaking up America's intelligence establishment with a series of leaks on mass surveillance in the United States and around the world.
He could not travel on from Sheremetyevo however after his passport was revoked, and was holed up in its transit zone for weeks before Moscow granted him a one-year refugee status.
