Post date: Oct 31, 2013 7:45:21 PM
Russian state media distribute a photograph of former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in central Moscow with Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the background.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA (REUTERS) - Russian state TV distributed still of U.S. former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden on Thursday (October 31).
Snowden is seen standing by the Moskva River in central Moscow next to a woman with the Christ The Saviour Cathedral in the background. The photograph was distributed on the day when Snowden's lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said his client has found a job working for a website in Russia,
Snowden, 30, fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia in June. President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. pleas to send Snowden home to face charges including espionage, and the temporary asylum he was granted in early August can be extended annually.
Snowden's location in Russia has not been disclosed and since July he has appeared only in a handful of photographs and video clips from a meeting this month with visiting former U.S. national security officials who support his cause.
Putin, a former KGB spy, said repeatedly that Russia would only shelter Snowden if he stopped harming the United States.
Putin has dismissed the widespread assumption that Russian intelligence officers had grilled Snowden for information after he arrived, and Kucherena has portrayed him as trying to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
He said earlier that he hoped Snowden would find a job because he was living on scant funds, mostly from donations.
A tabloid news site earlier published a photo of a man who looked like Snowden pushing a shopping cart in a supermarket parking lot.