--- title: Edward Snowden Expects to Stay in Russia description: The NSA leaker believes Moscow will extend his asylum status, which is set to expire in June, his lawyer said canonical: https://time.com/83611/snowden-expects-to-stay-in-russia/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-30T22:36:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:35:44.869Z article:section: Politics og:title: Edward Snowden Expects to Stay in Russia og:description: The NSA leaker believes Moscow will extend his asylum status, which is set to expire in June, his lawyer said og:url: https://time.com/83611/snowden-expects-to-stay-in-russia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Edward Snowden Expects to Stay in Russia twitter:description: The NSA leaker believes Moscow will extend his asylum status, which is set to expire in June, his lawyer said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Snowden Expects to Stay in Russia > Sponsored content. 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Snowden fled to Hong Kong and then to Moscow after leaking what authorities estimate to be about 1.7 million classified documents revealing extensive NSA programs, including both foreign and domestic mass-surveillance activities that have sparked fierce debate both in the U.S. and abroad. He faces a host of serious charges in the U.S., including theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national-defense information and willful communication of classified intelligence to an unauthorized person. “If the Justice Department would like to talk, we’d be glad to,” Radack said. “He’s not going to come here to be prosecuted for espionage.” \[[_Reuters_](http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/30/us-usa-snowden-idUSBREA3T12R20140430)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/83611/snowden-expects-to-stay-in-russia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/83611/snowden-expects-to-stay-in-russia/"},"headline":"Snowden Expects to Stay in Russia","datePublished":"2014-04-30T22:36:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:35:44.869Z","description":"Edward Snowden, the former contractor responsible for leaking a massive amount of classified National Security Agency information, believes Moscow will extend his temporary asylum status, which is set to expire in June, his lawyer said","url":"https://time.com/83611/snowden-expects-to-stay-in-russia/","keywords":["intelligence","putin","russia","NSA","Kremlin","moscow","asylum","National Security","Snowden"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/intelligence/","name":"intelligence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/83611/snowden-expects-to-stay-in-russia/","name":"Snowden Expects to Stay in Russia"}}]}] ```