Bringing the NSA leaker back to the U.S. depends on relations with Russia. And those relations are getting worse.
The president is not committed to a separate meeting with Putin, however, and criticized the Kremlin for harboring Snowden.
Gay and "pro-gay" athletes and tourists attending the Sochi Winter Olympic Games next year will face arrest under Russia's new "gay propaganda" laws, according to a Russian lawmaker.
Drag queen and disc jockey Barbie Breakout sewed her mouth shut in protest of Russian anti-homosexuality laws.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may or may not have caught a big fish while in Siberia.
Glenn Greenwald warns that low-level NSA employees can look at anyone's emails, phone calls and messages.
New antigay laws in Russia just months before the 2014 Sochi Olympics have sparked a heated debate and calls for a boycott.
The U.S. fugitive would have to stay at the airport until his request for temporary asylum is granted by Russian authorities.
The NSA leaker's asylum application could take months, but the Russians may let him out of the airport while he waits.
A judge's decision comes after thousands protested in Moscow's streets and just ahead of a meeting of G-20 finance ministers.
The U.S. fugitive reportedly has detailed documents that would enable someone who read them to evade or replicate the NSA's surveillance.
Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer's death whose death caused a rift between Russia and the United States, was convicted posthumously for tax evasion.
The leader of the protest group famous for topless demonstrations flees her native Ukraine for Paris.
Will gay athletes and spectators at the Sochi 2014 Olympics be safe following Russia's draconian new anti-gay law?
NSA leaker Edward Snowden, holed up in a transit section of a Moscow airport, has reportedly applied for asylum in Russia.
Russia says he is not their problem, and Ecuador might be backing off. Is Venezuela Edward Snowden's only hope for asylum?
Russia's president said Snowden is a “free man" and signaled that he won’t interfere with his travel plans.
[UPDATE 11:19 a.m. EDT] Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Tuesday that Edward Snowden is at Moscow's airport.
Where in the world is Edward Snowden? Has he taken a different route, or is he in custody?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin to express the EU's interest in closer trade relations.
Russia will invest half of its welfare reserves in a bid to boost the flagging economy.
Russia's state-owned crude oil giant Rosneft will raise its exports to China to 600,000 barrels per day.
