Snowden Defends Putin Question as Mirroring U.S. Exchange
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Edward Snowden, the former U.S. security contractor living under asylum in Russia, defended his appearance on President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show, saying he wanted to force a discussion about Russian spying.
Snowden, in a comment published today in the Guardian, said he was seeking a baseline answer from Putin as a step toward holding the former KGB colonel publicly accountable and denied he was participating in a propaganda ploy.