More than a month sat the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden fixed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, now he has to leave the transit area of the airport.

Edward Snowden has officially arrived in Russia – his application for temporary asylum has been granted. This was announced by Snowden’s attorney.

Edward Snowden has thus leave the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport after more than a month. The report both the Interfax news agency as well as the Reuters news agency, which refers to a representative of the airport. Snowden was stuck at the airport because the United States had declared his travel documents invalid.

Where the 30-year-old now resides, was initially not announced. According to his lawyer Anatoly Kutscherena he must now remain a year in Russia. Snowden had 16 July officially submitted its preliminary application for asylum.

With the unveiling of secret spying programs of the United States and other countries to monitor global Internet and telephone communication, the former intelligence officials attracted international Aufsegen. On Wednesday, the journalist Glenn Greenwald had published other documents from the collection of the NSA whistleblower – as they concern the Spähprogramm XKeyscore.

With this system, NSA personnel can read in real time the emails of users and track their searching the web, social networks and businesses in virtually all other activities in the network according to the report of the “Guardian”. Here you will find important information about XKeyscore.

Also uses the German Federal Intelligence Service XKeyscore, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution “test” currently claims to the system.

Snowden initially fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia. The U.S. government demanded his extradition several times without success – they sought him because of secret treason.

Snowden’s father had his son recommended on Wednesday to stay in Russia. “I think that Russia is determined and is able to protect my son,” Lon Snowden told the TV channel Rossia 24 “If I were him, I would stay in Russia.”