Putin: Edward Snowden Can Stay in Russia on One ‘Strange’ Condition

Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that Edward Snowden, the alleged leaker of NSA surveillance secrets, can stay in Russia as long as he stops harming American interests.

“If he wants to stay here, there is one condition: he has to stop his work aimed at damaging our U.S. partners, no matter how strange this sounds coming from me,” Putin told reporters.

But Putin also qualified his comments, saying that it appears the NSA leaker has no plans to stop his work and therefore should pick a final destination soon.