Zakharov announced the extension of Snowden residence permit in Russia Lenta.ru

the Whistleblower of the illegal activities of the U.S. intelligence Edward Snowden extended the term of the residence permit in Russia for another two years. About this in his Facebook said the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

So she commented on the statement by former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morella, who said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “great opportunity” to make a gift to the elected President of the United States Donald Trump to the inauguration of extraditing Snowden.

“What strange these “former” with them. British ex dug on the American President, some nonsense. American is not the first time is marked in a very hateful statements. Not so long ago, this is the best Morrell called to kill Russians in Syria,” — said Zakharov, expressing surprise that he did not yet know about the extension of Snowden permission to stay in Russia.

According to Zakharova, the essence of what offers Morell, is “the ideology of betrayal.” “You say, Mr. Morell, and all is now clear, that Your office normal things to present gifts in the form of people and deliver those who seek protection. You did not understand Russia, Michael Morell”, she concluded.

In 2013, Snowden gave the journalists a number of secret documents about the activities of U.S. intelligence. In particular, they talked about doing a large-scale wiretapping of telephone conversations and monitor e-mails around the world.

After the publication of the materials Snowden fled from the US to Hong Kong and then to Moscow, where he spent more than a month in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport. 1 Aug 2013 he received in Russia, temporary shelter, and a year later — a three-year residence permit.

the American authorities, Snowden is charged with illegal transfer of information of importance to national security, intentional transmission of intelligence information and theft of state property. In total at home, Snowden faces up to 30 years in prison.

the US President-Elect Donald trump earlier in the course of the election campaign, and promised in case of victory to return Snowden to the United States. Prior to that, in 2014, he posted a tweet in which he called former intelligence officer and a spy reported that before such harm that he has caused the country, “he would have been executed”.