Let's be honest about Russia's role in the Edward Snowden matter

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31. They look like shipping containers, tricked out with beds, doors and windows!

The following articles are all from the Voice of Russia, which might as well be called The Mouth of Putin...but whatever:

It has been confirmed that fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden had holed up at an airside capsule hotel at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, but has recently moved out, Russian media say.
“He [Snowden] spent several hours here, but he checked out long ago,” reporters were informed at the reception desk of Sheremetyevo’s Air Express Hotel in Terminal E.
According to the source with the hotel staff, a group of journalists settled down at this base hotel almost at the same time as Snowden did, but the whistleblower managed to avoid them.
Another informed source told Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency Snowden still remains in the airport’s transit area.
Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_26/Snowden-moved-out-of-Sheremetyevo-airport-capsule-hotel-8480/

A former CIA employee, Edward Snowden, believed to have been staying in the Sheremetyevo airport transit area, may have obtained a transit Russian visa that’s valid for 72 hours, a source that’s familiar with the situation has told the RIA-Novosti news agency.
If transit passengers have a ticket to fly to another destination, as well as visas to enter third countries they may get a transit Russian visa. If Snowden is in possession of such documents, he has the right for a transit Russian visa at a consular service, right at the airport, and he may have done this, the source said.
According to the RIA-Novosti news agency, Snowden has twice reserved tickets for the Moscow-Havana flight, for June 24th and 25th . But he was not found aboard the plane the first time, while reservation for Tuesday’s flight was removed just hours before the takeoff. A document allowing the entry to a third country could be a refugee document to enter Ecuador that the Ecuadorean authorities have given him, something the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website, which provides Snowden with legal support, reported earlier.
Under Russian law, foreigners may get a transit Russian visa at Russian Foreign Ministry consular offices abroad, but in an emergency, they may likewise get such visas at the expressly set-up consular points at Sheremetyevo or Domodedovo airports.
Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_26/Snowden-may-get-Russian-transit-visa-source-0878/

The former CIA employee Edward Snowden has had his passport revoked; he therefore cannot buy a flight ticket and is forced to remain at Sheremetyevo Moscow airport’s transit zone, a source close to the whistleblower has told the Interfax news agency.
Snowden’s US passport has been annulled, he carries no other documents proving his identity, so he is compelled to stay at the airport’s transit zone, since he cannot either enter Russia, or buy a flight ticket, the source said.
Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_06_26/Snowden-stays-transit-area-of-Sheremetyevo-because-his-passport-was-revoked-source-2715/

U.S. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden did not stay at the capsule hotel of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport but only entered there for a couple of minutes to ask for the prices, an airport employee said.
"Yes, I saw Snowden, he stopped by here to see the pricelist but decided not to stay here. He is not here now, either," an employee from the capsule hotel's reception in Sheremetyevo's terminal E said. "Someone just pulled this hoax, and everybody believed it," she said.
The hotel is comprised of slightly more than 40 small rooms looking like capsules, some of them without windows. Each room has a bed, a table, a shower cabin and a WC.
None of the Sheremetyevo employees could say anything about Snowden's current whereabouts.
Read more: http://english.ruvr.ru/news/2013_06_27/Snowden-did-not-stay-at-Sheremetyevo-Airports-capsule-hotel-employee-0366/

It's really a game of Where's Waldo....who knows what the deal is? Maybe he's hiding in a stall in the airport crapper, sitting on the throne, clicking away at his laptop...?