The President of the Russian Federation

, Vladimir Putin, signed the decree to this effect.

Snowden

, who worked for the National Security Agency (NSA), left the United States in 2013

after releasing classified information about the US electronic surveillance program .

He is wanted in his homeland on charges of espionage.

First, Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong, and then to Russia.

In 2016, the House Intelligence Committee approved a document prepared by its analysts that said former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who stole 1.5 million classified documents, was not the whistleblower his supporters continue to claim. .

His actions were illegal.

Most of the documents stolen by Snowden did not concern the intervention of US services in the private lives of Americans, but contained secrets, the disclosure of which could strike at US national interests, the report claims.

In 2020, a

son was born to Snowden and his wife

Lindsay Mills in Russia.

Snowden was not deprived of American citizenship.

He stated that he and his wife "will remain Americans, raising their son in the spirit of the American values ​​they love, including freedom of expression."