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		</div><p>Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former US security contractor Edward Snowden, according to a decree signed by the Russian leader.</p>
<p>Snowden is one of 75 foreign nationals listed as being granted Russian citizenship.</p>
<p>The decree was published on an official government website.</p>
<p>Snowden, a former contractor with the US National Security Agency (NSA), has been living in Russia since 2013 to escape prosecution in the US after leaking classified documents detailing government surveillance programmes.</p>
<p>He was granted permanent residency in 2020 and said at the time that he planned to apply for Russian citizenship, without renouncing his US citizenship.</p>
<p>Snowden’s lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti the former contractor’s wife Lindsay Mills, an American who has been living with him in Russia, will also be applying for a Russian passport.</p>
<p>The couple had a child in December 2020.</p>
<p>Snowden, who has kept a low profile in Russia and occasionally criticised Russian government policies on social media, said in 2019 he was willing to return to the US if he is guaranteed a fair trial.</p>
<p>He has not commented on being granted Russian citizenship.</p>
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