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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by teleological on Thursday July 18, 2013 @08:53AM (#6063223)
Wait, isn't Russia the "first to stand against human rights violations carried out by the powerful rather than the powerless"? You kidder, you, Edward Snowden.
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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by guard-of-terra on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:18AM (#6063389)
Edward Snowden will be more than happy to receive asylum from Germany or Australia but they don't exactly line for that.

So he had to settle on Russia.

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by teleological on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:47AM (#6063570)
He had to settle on Russia because his first choice, China, sent him packing.
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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by cpncrunch on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:13AM (#6063729)
Exactly what I was thinking. Snowden is either highly delusional or completely out of options. As soon as he doesn't play ball with Putin, he'll be in jail with all the other troublemakers.

I can't believe your comment got downvoted.

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Re:Anti-corruption blogger Navalny sentenced to 5 years behi... by jotm on Thursday July 18, 2013 @10:52AM (#6064012)
Of course he's out of options - you'd think an NSA employee would know that Russia isn't exactly a bastion of freedom and justice... But jailtime is worse...
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