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[QUOTE]Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has not been given Russian travel documents, his lawyer has said, contradicting earlier reports.
Anatoly Kucherena told reporters his client would remain in the transit zone at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been for the past month.
Earlier, airport officials said that Mr Kucherena had given Mr Snowden the travel documents.
The US wants him extradited for leaking details of surveillance programmes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has refused to hand him to the American authorities, but said he could stay in Russia only if he stopped leaking US secrets.
Mr Snowden has stayed in the airport's transit area since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 June.
He has requested temporary asylum in Russia, and said recently that his favoured final destination was Latin America.
Mr Kucherena visited his client at the airport on Wednesday and told a news conference later that the 30-year-old would not yet be leaving the airport.
He said the application for temporary asylum had not been processed, and no travel documents had been received.
"He is not planning to leave for now. He asked for temporary asylum, which in the case of a positive decision is granted for a term of one year," said Mr Kucherena.
The lawyer said Mr Snowden wanted to study Russian culture, and claimed he had dropped off books including Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Mr Kucherena's account contradicted that of airport officials, who earlier told local media that the lawyer had handed Mr Snowden the documents he needed to leave the airport.
The Interfax news agency quoted unnamed officials saying the American would be provided with new clothes before leaving the airport.
After the lawyer's news conference, the White House said it wanted clarity from Russia on his status.
Spokesman Jay Carney said Washington had already made it clear to Moscow that Mr Snowden should be handed over to face espionage charges.
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"Papers, please."
I bet they're smuggling him out one organ at a time.
I bet it's mcdonalds
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I don't see there being much food in the waiting for transit section (most airport food is before that? )
His lawyer already said it was clothes since Snowden hadn't changed clothes for a month.
[quote]Anatoly Kucherena told reporters his client would remain in the transit zone at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been for the past month.[/quote]
Eugh, no showers or anything.
[QUOTE=_jesterk;41582256]Eugh, no showers or anything.[/QUOTE]
You can do a sponge bath on the toilet.
Surely his hotel room has a shower
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