{"id":225261,"date":"2022-12-19T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=225261"},"modified":"2022-12-13T06:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T06:55:42","slug":"us-whistleblower-edward-snowden-takes-oath-as-russian-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/12\/us-whistleblower-edward-snowden-takes-oath-as-russian-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"US Whistleblower Edward Snowden Takes Oath as Russian Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance. His wife applied for Russian citizenship as well, says lawyer.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/snowden-edward.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-225263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/snowden-edward.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/snowden-edward.jpg 384w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/snowden-edward-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>2 Dec 2022 &#8211;<\/em> US whistleblower Edward Snowden took an oath as a Russian citizen and obtained the country&#8217;s passport, his lawyer said today.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden&#8217;s wife Lindsay Mills also applied for the Russian citizenship, Anatoly Kucherena said in an interview with the Russian state-run news agency TASS.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 26, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree granting Russian citizenship to Snowden.<\/p>\n<p>Snowden, former US National Security Agency contractor, who leaked thousands of documents detailing a long-term surveillance program by the US government, was given asylum in Russia in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Snowden&#8217;s long-term girlfriend Mills joined him in Russia, they got married in 2017, and had a son in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/world\/us-whistleblower-edward-snowden-takes-oath-as-russian-citizen\/2753973#\" >Go to Original &#8211; aa.com.tr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Dec 2022 &#8211; Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance. His wife applied for Russian citizenship as well, says lawyer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":225263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[1452,278,70,921],"class_list":["post-225261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","tag-edward-snowden","tag-russia","tag-usa","tag-whistleblowing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}