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April 18, 2014

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Snowden appearance

EDWARD Snowden, the former US spy agency contractor who leaked details of US intelligence eavesdropping, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin a question yesterday during a televised call-in show.

The exchange was the first known direct contact between Putin and Snowden since Russia granted the American asylum last summer after he disclosed widespread monitoring of telephone and internet data by the United States and fled the country.

Snowden was not in the studio where Putin was speaking, submitting his question in a video clip. Snowden asked Putin: “Does Russia intercept, store or analyze, in any way, the communications of millions of individuals?”

Putin said Russia regulates communications as part of criminal investigations, but “on a massive scale, on an uncontrolled scale we certainly do not allow this and I hope we will never allow it.”




 

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