“Edward starts work in November,” lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said. “He will provide support for a large Russian site,” he said, adding that he would not name the site ‘for security reasons’. Snowden (30), a former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed secret US Internet telephone surveillance programmes, fled to Hong Kong and then to Russia in June.

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will start working for a large website in Moscow. File pic