The former NSA employee Edward Snowden will still remain in Russia. The necessary documents have been filed, said his lawyer.

Former U.S. intelligence officials Edward Snowden has applied for a renewal of an asylum in Russia. As his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kutscherena on Wednesday Russian news agencies said the necessary documents have been filed, “to prolong his stay in Russia.” He now waiting for the decision of the immigration authorities.

Snowden had triggered the scandal surrounding the wiretapping of U.S. secret NSA over a year ago with his revelations. In his escape, he sat first set a month on the Moscow airport, before he received beginning August 2013 for one year for asylum. The U.S. is looking Snowden on arrest warrants. He had applied for asylum in many other countries, but so far without success.
Months ago, Snowden had offered to testify in Germany before the NSA Committee – but a safe stay should be granted to him. The federal government is against it.

Snowden had rejected a survey by video about his German lawyer. His client will not testify Asylort from Moscow via video. The letter from the lawyer had been received on Tuesday, as the Committee Chairman Patrick Sensburg (CDU) announced.

SPD and Union had voted in late June but NSA Committee against a survey of former U.S. intelligence employee in Germany. The committee had decided on June 26, against the will of the opposition to question instead Snowden on September 11 via video at its current location. Thus, the efforts seem to have failed to testimony.

Greens and the Left now threaten with a lawsuit before the Federal Constitutional Court to enforce such a hearing of the U.S. secret service stent Hüllers in Germany. The Green interior expert Hans-Christian Ströbele said: “We will do” if the federal government does not still come around. It was the duty of the Government, the Committee to provide assistance and Snowden to pave the way to Germany. This included the promise that he would not be extradited to the United States.

Since last year was clear was that “Mr. Snowden can not testify fully from Moscow”, Ströbele said. His asylum status forbids him there to do something that could contribute to an impairment of Russia’s relations with the United States. “The ignored so far the

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