Russia on Friday faced fury from the United States after granting asylum to fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden and allowing him to walk free from an airport transit zone where he was marooned for over five weeks.The whereabouts of Snowden—who is wanted by the United States after leaking details of vast US surveillance programmes—are now a mystery with his lawyer refusing to disclose the location for security reasons.The White House said it was “extremely disappointed” by Moscow’s decision to grant Snowden asylum, adding that it would now review the need for a planned summit between President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin in September.The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor left Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Friday and took a taxi to a secret location. He now has temporary asylum in Russia for a year.On Friday, Life News website published a photograph showing Snowden smiling broadly as he walked through the airport with a rucksack on his back and carrying another bag.
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