Russia 'has not received' Snowden asylum bid

[struggle4progress]

13 July 2013 Last updated at 08:15 ET

... The director of the Russian migration service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, said on Saturday that no request had been made.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, meanwhile, told reporters at a foreign ministers' meeting in Kyrgyzstan: "We are not in contact with Snowden."

"To acquire political asylum, Russian laws presuppose a certain procedure, and the first step towards it is to apply to the Federal Migration Service," Mr Lavrov said ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23300425

[flamingdem]

1. timeline

friday: Snowden asks for asylum in Russia again
friday: Obama calls Putin
saturday: Russia says "Oh, we never got the asylum request we expected"

Verrry interesting.