Fugitive intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is still in the transit area at Moscow airport, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has confirmed.
Putin said the intelligence leaker remained a free man, and the sooner he chose a destination the better.
Guardian correspondent Miriam Elder has the latest from Moscow.
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