Alexander Konovolov, President of the Institute for Strategic Assessment (Russia), commenting on Edward Snowden in The Moscow News: "No one really knows what he was motivated by. It wasn't money. It wasn't Communist ideals, which don't matter anymore ... He's part of a new information society, and for many of these people, there is a conflict between the responsibilities they've undertaken before the state, and the responsibilities which they themselves feel they have before humanity. We will increasingly be seeing people like this here in Russia." That, Konovalov said, is not something the Kremlin would be looking forward to.' |