FM: Russia has no contact with Snowden

Former CIA employee Edward Snowden should address the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) if he wants political asylum in Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday. Lavrov said that the procedure involves Snowden filing an application for political asylum as a first step. He stressed that the Russian administration has no contact with Snowden. Snowden met yesterday for 45 minutes with human rights organizations in Russia. He then released a statement detailing his efforts to gain political asylum, as well as the counter efforts of the US administration in that regard as well. Lavrov stressed that he had only learned of these details through the statement like everyone else. Snowden was a former CIA employee who is now rendered stateless after he leaked details of a top secret US and British mass surveillance program.