He spent almost six weeks at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport before Russia granted him asylum for a year on Aug. 1, 2013, upsetting Washington, which wants to try him on charges including espionage.
Snowden is believed to have taken 1.7 million digital documents with him. His leaks revealed massive programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that gathered information on hundreds of millions of Americans’ emails, phone calls and Internet use.
He was charged last year in the United States with theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and wilful communication of classified intelligence to an unauthorized person.
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