Snowden got a job in Russia

The exposure of the American special services Edward Snowden, who received refuge in Russia in August, got a job. It is reported by Russia Today with reference to Anatoly Kucheren, an emigrant lawyer. Kucheren said that Snowden will support a certain large Russian site. He did not reveal the name of the resource "for security reasons." The TV channel Twitter specifies that the portal, on which Snowden was accepted, is non -state. The American will begin work on November 1.

In early August , Snowden was proposed by Pavel Durov , the founder and general director of the VKontakte social network. “There is no more popular European Internet company than VK,” the businessman said. “I think Edward can be interesting to protect the personal data of millions of our users.”

In June, Snowden distributed information about the electronic surveillance programs of the American National Security Agency, after which he fled to Russia. In the United States, he is charged with a violation of the two articles of the 1917 law on espionage: unauthorized disclosure of secret information affecting national defense, and a deliberate transfer of data from American intelligence to persons who are not entitled to receive such information. In addition, Snowden is charged with theft of government property. For each point, he faces up to 10 years in prison.