Tag: Moscow
Russia tries to go around Obama and influence our Congress
=============================================================================================================
First on CNN: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has turned down a Russian request to meet to discuss Syria, his office says, making it unclear if any U.S. lawmakers will sit down with a planned delegation from Moscow.
This comes less than a day after House Speaker John Boehner rejected a similar request from the Russian government.
A spokesman for the Russian embassy would not comment on the declined requests. “We are still working on the visit,” Maxim Abramov said.
Click here to read the full story.
Follow breaking news on CNN TV, CNN.com and CNN Mobile apps.
——————————– Crossfire Returns Monday Let the Debate Begin! Watch Weeknights 6:30 ET on CNN CNN.com/Crossfire ——————————–
Continue reading “Russia tries to go around Obama and influence our Congress”
“Edward Snowden emerges, wants asylum in Russia”
CBS NEWS
MOSCOW – National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wants asylum in Russia and is willing to stop sharing information as a trade-off for such a deal, according to a lawmaker who was among a dozen activists and officials to meet with him Friday at the Moscow airport where he has been marooned for weeks.
Snowden appeared nervous, but in apparently good health during the meeting behind closed doors in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport, Duma member Vyacheslav Nikonov told reporters.
Human Rights Watch provided a photo of Snowden at the meeting, the first new image to appear of the former NSA systems analyst since the Guardian newspaper broke the story of widespread U.S. Internet surveillance based on his leaks.
Whether Russia would be willing to take Snowden up on his request is unclear. The Kremlin has signaled that it wants Snowden out. But granting asylum would be a diplomatically risky move, threatening to worsen Moscow-Washington already strained by U.S. criticism of President Vladimir Putin‘s crackdown on the country’s opposition and Putin’s allegation that the U.S. is meddling in Russian affairs.
Continue reading ““Edward Snowden emerges, wants asylum in Russia””
Donde es Edward Snowden?
Russia and NSA leaker Edward Snowden
CNN
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is in the transit zone at the international airport in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin says.
“He is a transit passenger in the transit zone and is still there now,” Putin said. “Mr. Snowden is a free man. The sooner he selects his final destination point, the better both for us and for himself.”
Putin said Snowden’s arrival in Russia was “completely unexpected.”
Get complete coverage of breaking news on CNN.com, CNN TV and CNN Mobile.
*****************************************
Something new is brewing in the morning.
New Day on CNN.
Weekday Mornings 6-9am ET
NewDayCNN.com
*****************************************
“3 Latin American nations have reasons to aid Snowden”
TIMES DISPATCH
Posted: Monday, June 24, 2013 12:00 am
BOGOTA, Colombia The three Latin American countries said to be helping Edward Snowden flee from American authorities are united in their opposition to the Obama administration and pursue foreign policy objectives designed to counter U.S. influence.
As Snowden, the intelligence contractor who disclosed documents about U.S. surveillance programs, arrived in Moscow from Hong Kong on Sunday, Russian media reported that he was booked on a flight to the Cuban capital of Havana, and from there on to Caracas, Venezuela.
Continue reading ““3 Latin American nations have reasons to aid Snowden””
“Flight to Cuba for Which Snowden Booked Departs”
ABC NEWS
By MAX SEDDON Associated Press
MOSCOW June 23, 2013 (AP)
A plane took off from Moscow Monday headed for Cuba, but the seat booked by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was empty, and there was no sign of him elsewhere on board.
An Aeroflot representative who wouldn’t give her name told The Associated Press that Snowden wasn’t on flight SU150 to Havana. AP reporters on the flight couldn’t him.
The Interfax news agency also quoted an unidentified Russian security source in Moscow as saying that Snowden wasn’t on the plane.
The airline said earlier Snowden registered for the flight using his U.S. passport, which American officials say has been annulled.
Snowden arrived in Moscow on Sunday from Hong Kong, where he had been hiding for several weeks to evade U.S. justice. Ecuador is considering Snowden’s asylum application.
After spending a night in Moscow’s airport, the former National Security Agency contractor — and admitted leaker of state secrets — had been expected to fly to Cuba and Venezuela en route to possible asylum in Ecuador.
Continue reading ““Flight to Cuba for Which Snowden Booked Departs””
“U.S. to Russia: Give us Snowden”
CBS NEWS
`
WASHINGTON – The bizarre journey of Edward Snowden is far from over. After spending a night in Moscow‘s airport, the former National Security Agency contractor and admitted leaker of U.S. state secrets was expected to fly to Cuba and Venezuela en route to possible asylum in Ecuador.
But the U.S. says Moscow should hand Snowden over to Washington.
Several Russian news agencies were saying early Monday that Snowden had checked in for a flight to Havana.
Snowden, also a former CIA technician, fled Hong Kong on Sunday to dodge U.S. efforts to extradite him on espionage charges. Ecuador’s Foreign Minister, Ricardo Patino, said his government had received an asylum request. He added Monday that Ecuador’s decision about the request involves “freedom of expression and … the security of citizens around the world.” He did not say how long it would take Ecuador to decide.
The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has said it would help Snowden.
- Snowden lands in Moscow, likely bound for Ecuador
- Snowden’s impact on U.S. relations with China, Russia
- U.S. files espionage charges against NSA leaker
Ecuador has rejected the United States’ previous efforts at cooperation, and has been helping WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange avoid prosecution by allowing him to stay at its embassy in London.
Snowden was on a flight from Hong Kong that arrived in Moscow Sunday and was booked on a flight to Cuba Monday, the Russian news agencies ITAR-Tass and Interfax reported, citing unnamed airline officials.
Patino said, “We know that he’s currently in Moscow, and we are … in touch with the highest authorities of Russia.”
BREAKING NEWS: NSA THREAT, SNOWDEN…
CNN
Ex-National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has asked for asylum in Ecuador, the South American country’s foreign ministry announced Sunday.
Snowden’s story took a dramatic turn Sunday when he flew from Hong Kong to Moscow, aided by the international anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
The United States is asking Cuba, Ecuador and Venezuela not to let in Snowden, who leaked information about NSA surveillance programs, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday. The United States also is asking those countries to expel him if they do admit him, the official said.
Follow complete coverage of breaking news on CNN TV, http://cnn.com and CNN Mobile.
“At Kerry-Putin meeting, US-Russia relations thaw – a little”
By Fred Weir, Correspondent / May 7, 2013
Mikhail Klimentyev/Presidential Press Service/RIA-Novosti/AP
MOSCOW – Secretary of State John Kerry huddled in the Kremlin for several hours with President Vladimir Putin Tuesday, in what US officials described as an effort to “intensify” US-Russia dialogue and inject some fresh juice into a bilateral relationship that’s been stumbling aimlessly, amid growing acrimony, for over a year.
More urgently, he told Mr. Putin that Russia and the United States must try harder to forge a common position on the fast-deteriorating situation in Syria, where conflicting charges of chemical weapons usage have alarmed the big powers, and a series of Israeli airstrikes in recent days have raised the specter of a much wider war.
“The United States believes that we share some very significant common interests with respect to Syria,” Mr. Kerry told Putin.
RECOMMENDED: Vladimir Putin 101: A quiz about Russia’s president
Those mutual interests include promoting stability in the region, blocking extremists from gaining power, and working together to broker a peaceful political transition for the civil war-wracked country, he added.
But according to a brief note posted on the Kremlin’s official website, Putin indicated that he was only interested in a general discussion of “global problems” and would probably wait for his upcoming meetings with President Obama to make any serious decisions.
“I hope to soon meet with [Obama] in person. We will have opportunities to do so several times this year,” Putin wrote.
Continue reading ““At Kerry-Putin meeting, US-Russia relations thaw – a little””
