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Complete non -flow
The last turns in Edward Snowden leave the feeling of phantasmagoria, the illusoryness of what is happening. The invisible man dissolved in the transit zone of "Sheremetyev", but was he there at all? Who saw him on board the Hong Kong -Moscow flight? Who can vouch that he does not have a second passport to another name, that he did not change his appearance and did not reach the city, slipping away from the host of journalists and the FSB? The story of espionage also knows the wrong quipvo. Edik is now sitting in "Jean-Jacques" and writes on a blog , for the rest of the time you pretend to be a Tajik janitor. In general, in Pushkin, Cheburechnaya "Hong Kong" opened ... Well, further in the text.
Of course, nonsense all the statements of Russian officials that the transit zone is not the territory of Russia and that the authorities do not dare to touch the Snowden there to Snowden. Even how they laugh. The Americans even had the diplomatic immunity of Dominic Stroz Chance from the side of Air France, which, as it were, the territory of France, and were in their right. The legal status of the transit zone is unclear, the national authorities establish its regime, and Snowden may well live in Russia, while at the same time remaining a transit passenger.
It is unlikely that references to the absence of an extradition agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation are also wealthy: to issue a person accused of a serious crime, only the good will of the government is necessary on whose territory this person is located. The contract turns goodwill into an obligation, that's all.
If you accept all this Sheremetyevsky gimp by a pure coin, then it turns out that Snowden is a naive idealist, and Julian Assange who took him under his guardianship is “vile Mephistopheles”, as an attentive and thin observer Alexei Tsvetkov put it. After all, Assange signed a contract with Russia Today - he, they say, lured Snowden to Moscow.
Reasonably. To this, however, it can be added that Snowden by profession is a system administrator, and for many the word "systemmin" is associated with hypertrophied conceit with the appearance and habits of "botany". In addition, his girlfriend has a stripper, scary now offended at him.
According to the latest information, Snowden turned to the refuge to 21 countries, of which four (Brazil, India, Norway and Poland) refused, five (Austria, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Finland) replied that the petitioner should first arrive in the country's territory, eight more (Germany, Italy, Iceland, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France and France. Switzerland) did not give any answer and only two encouraged a restless fugitive - Bolivia and Venezuela. As for the Ecuador, in whose London embassy the Assange found a shelter and which Snowden was especially hoping for, he disappointed this time: the US Vice President Joe Biden called the country's President Rafael Correa, after which Correa said that the decision to give Snowden the temporary Ecuador's certificate was a mistake and that the fugitive could not arrive in the Ecuador without passports.
By coincidence, the presidents of both states that were encouraging Snowden, at the beginning of this week were in Moscow at the forum of gas exporting countries. Both were suspected of trying to secretly take Snowden from Russia. France and Portugal closed their airspace for the President of Bolivia Evo Morales, and he was forced to sit in Vienna, but Snowden on board was on board. Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro, who called Snowden’s act “a feat of rebellion and rebellion against those who want to control the whole world,” also flew out of Moscow without Snowden.
The 21st country on the list is Russia. With her, Snowden got the most entertaining story. On Sunday, the consular department of the Sheremetyevo Airport was applied by the Wikileaks lawyer Sarah Harrison, who accompanied Snowden from Hong Kong to Moscow. On his behalf, she filed a petition for asylum. The paper was sent for its intended purpose, but the very next day, President Putin formulated a condition under which Snowden will be provided with asylum in Russia:
If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he must stop his work aimed at damaging our American partners, oddly enough, will sound from my lips. But precisely because he feels himself a human rights activist and fighter for human rights, he, apparently, does not intend to stop such a work. So he must choose a country of stay for himself and get over there.
After that, Snowden withdrew his petition. Probably someone will say that for him this is a matter of principle. But I have another explanation. In the Sunday talk show, ABC News “This week” took part from his home at the Ecuador Embassy, Julian Assange. He, as always, spoke a lot and eloquently about Washington’s insidiousness, about the high mission, which he is performed by Snowden. But the host George Stefanopulos did not succumb to this rhetoric and asked: The Guardian promises to continue the publication of Snowuden's dossier - does this mean that they now owns WikiLeaks? Assange replied :
Listen, at this stage the process of publication will not be interrupted. Measures have been taken to ensure that no state has forced Mr. Snowen to stop further publication.
In other words, nothing depends on Snowden. Even if he wanted to, he cannot stop the publication of materials that he does not have. “In this regard,” Putin put it, “he is a free person.” And at the same time, Assange declares (in the same interview) that Wikileaks is not responsible for the situation.