Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Edward Snowden Ends World's Longest Flight Delay

Now that Edward Snowden is officially a refugee, he faces the reality of living in Russia

August 1, 2013 at 6:35 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

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Edward Snowden, until recently the most famous transit passenger at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, has finally become an official refugee from the U.S. justice system. Now for a new challenge: adjusting to the reality of living in Russia.

Snowden, wanted in the U.S. for publicly disclosing information about the country's electronic surveillance operations, receiveda one-year asylum document on Aug. 1. His departure from the airport where he had spent 40 days was notably subdued: He got in a taxi and headed to an undisclosed location.