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agilebyte on June 24, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Edward Snowden whereabouts unknown as US presses R...

But he technically did not enter Russian soil right? He was in transit and did not step foot outside of the terminal building.

dedward on June 24, 2013 [–]

I think you'd find the international security area at the airport is still sovereign soil; the country just, for obvious practical reasons, doesn't insist on people going through immigration and customs in order to transit through.

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