Snowden is responsible for one of the largest escapes of information from US history, which made him a hero to some and a traitor to others. During his work with the NSA, Snowden realized that he was part of a large mass surveillance program capable of monitoring every move of citizens. This is why it has decided to disclose a large amount of confidential documents to the international media and shed light on this enormous violation of privacy.
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Since then he has lived in Russia with his family, to avoid arrest in the United States. In 2020 they asked to be able to obtain citizenship, without however renouncing the US one, but then the Kremlin granted only the permanent right of residence. Two years later, during a period of extreme tension between Moscow and Washington, Putin decided to officially make Snowden a Russian citizen.
Edward Snowden and the leak that showed us the surveillance In the third episode of Revolutionaries in code, the podcast dedicated to people who dreamed dangerously with the internet, the story of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who revealed how the network could be a surveillance machine According to the Guardian, the Kremlin leader has issued a special decree to grant citizenship to Snowden and to another 72 people born abroad, whose identity is not known. Hypotheses about the possibility that Snowden will be sent to the front immediately began to circulate on the network, as a result of the mandatory mobilization launched by Putin after the successes of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the first half of September.
But based on what was declared to Russian news agency Ria Novosti by Snowden's Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, his client cannot be drafted because he did not serve in the Russian military. The lawyer added that Snowden's wife Lindsay Mills is also applying for Russian citizenship.