Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower and US citizen who has been stranded inside the international transit zone of the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow for over a month, may be receiving documents as early as today that would allow him to leave, according to Reuters.
Reporters were gathering at the terminal exit in anticipation of an appearance of Snowden:
Citing an unnamed “airport official,” the news agency says that a lawyer “will hand him the papers” Wednesday afternoon (local time) and that these documents would allow Snowden “to leave the transit area.”
It was not clear from the reporting whether or not the papers Snowden is reportedly receiving represent Russia’s official acceptance of Snowden’s petition for asylum status or if they are travel documents that will allow him to transit out of the country.
As the Guardian reports, Snowden has said “he will request asylum in Russia until he is permitted to travel to Latin America. Venezuela has offered him political asylum but he remains unable to travel there without travel documents.”
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