TEHRAN, Nov. 5 (MNA) There are growing calls in Germany not only to question Edward Snowden in connection with the ongoing NSA scandal, but also to offer him safe passage and asylum. Yet the heads of the two major political camps fear the wrath of the United States.
Strbele, a lawmaker from the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg election district in Berlin,...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says that he did not take any secret NSA documents to Russia and that intelligence officials in China as well as Russia could not get access to the documents he had obtained before leaving the United States.
In an interview with The New York Times, Snowden said ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The father of former US intelligence contractor and whistle blower Edward Snowden arrived in Russia where his son was granted asylum in August after he spent weeks in a transit zone at Moscow airport when the US revoked his travel documents.
The plane carrying Lon Snowden landed in Moscow Thursday morning, RT crew on the scene reported....
Russian authorities have not yet issued a visa for the father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, awaiting an official green light from the countrys foreign ministry.
"The fact is that Lon Snowden still does not have a valid Russia visa, said a source close to the elder Snowden, as cited in a report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS. When Lons ...
The US whistleblowerEdward Snowdengot stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana refused to let him fly fromRussiatoCuba, a Russian newspaper has claimed.
Snowden, who is wanted in the US for leaking details of government surveillance programmes to the Guardian, had planned to fly to Havana from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport a day ...
TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice questioned the value of working toward a close relationship with Russia amid increasingly frayed ties between the two nations. Earlier this week, President Obama canceled a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of next month's G20 summit in St.
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US President Barack Obama says the United States is pausing to reassess relations with Russia, amid what he called backward thinking by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscows adoption of a more anti-US attitude.
Obama said there are a number of other issues of concern such as emerging differences around Syria and around human rights, besides ...
For more on the strained relationship between Russia and the U.S., we're joined by Steven Pifer. He's former ambassador to Ukraine, and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Ambassador, welcome.
STEVEN PIFER: Glad to be here.
HEADLEE: The President spoke yesterday and he referred to this tension in the relationship between himself and President ...
US President Barack Obama described his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as a bored kid in the back of the classroom," amid high tensions between the two countries over a growing number of issues.
"I know the press likes to focus on body language, and he's got that kind of slouch, looking like the bored kid in the back of the classroom, Obama said ...
The father of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not cave to U.S. pressure, a day after President Obama canceled plans to attend a bilateral summit over Moscows decision to grant his son asylum.
President Vladimir Putin has stood firm. I respect strength, and I respect courage,...
(Reuters) - PresidentBarack Obamais cancelling his planned meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin scheduled for next month in Moscow, an administration official said on Wednesday.
The Obama administration has repeatedly expressed disappointment after Moscow granted asylum to former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, rejecting U.S. pleas ...
US President Barack Obama accused Russia of having a Cold War mentality saying he was "disappointed" that Moscow granted temporary asylum to American whistleblower Edward Snowden who is wanted in the US on espionage charges.
"There have been times where they slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality," Obama said on NBC's The Tonight ...
The lawyer of American whistleblower Edward Snowden has rejected as cynical the US official claims of filing lawfully grounded requests for Snowdens extradition from Russia.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Thursday that Washington is extremely disappointed with the Russian government for granting temporary asylum to Snowden despite ...
President Obama is even less likely to go through with a visit to Moscow this fall after Russia's decision on Thursday to grant Edward J Snowden temporary asylum. For Obama, though, the Snowden affair is only one of myriad reasons to beg off the scheduled meeting with President Vladimir V Putin.
The dispute over Snowden, the fugitive intelligence ...
American whistleblower Edward Snowden has hailed Russias decision to give him asylum as a victory for the rule of law.
Over the past eight weeks we have seen the [US President Barack] Obama administration show no respect for international or domestic law, but in the end the law is winning, the former technical contractor for the US National Security ...
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