Snowden has withdrawn asylum request: Russia

Moscow: Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has withdrawn a request for political asylum in Russia after President Vladimir Putin said he should stop “harming our American partners”, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_921405” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Posters in support of Snowden. Agencies.[/caption] Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said Snowden was in the transit area of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and had not crossed through passport control onto Russian territory. Reuters