TROITSK. June 3 (Interfax) - The issue of extending temporary asylum to former CIA employee Edward Snowden will be considered by a territorial body of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS), FMS Chief Konstantin Romodanovsky said.
"Edward Snowden is the issue of the FMS territorial subdivision. This is not an issue for its leader's attention," Romodanovsky told reporters following a meeting with migration service chiefs of Hungary and Slovakia in Troitsk on Tuesday.
"Whatever my employees decide, it will be in accordance with the law. You will receive necessary information in a timely manner," Romodanovsky said.
In August 2013, Snowden was granted temporary asylum in Russia after spending over a month in the transit zone of the Moscow Sheremetyevo International Airport.
On Monday, it was reported that Snowden is ready to leave Russia for Brazil if he is given such an opportunity.
In the U.S., Snowden is charged in absentia of stealing state property, unauthorized access to sensative information, and deliberate provisions of secret information to foreign special services. He is facing up to ten years in prison on each count.