Just in: Bolshoi hosts Edward Snowden’s first public outing

Just in: Bolshoi hosts Edward Snowden’s first public outing

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norman lebrecht

August 07, 2014

The US whistleblower, granted an extra year’s asylum in Moscow, celebrated with a visit to the opera – The Tsar’s Bride, at the Bolshoi.

He passed mostly unnoticed, having shed his spectacles and worn a dark jacket.

 

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Snowden betrayed classified US information in protest at US surveillance of citizens. In Russia, everyone knows, there is no such surveillance.

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