Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Since then, US-Russia relations have nosedived -- largely at Washington's insistence -- with the emergence of the Snowden row. Former CIA contractor Edward Snowden arrived in Moscow on 23 June to escape an extradition bid by the US government to arraign him in Hong Kong. Snowden's revelations of massive illegal spying and information gathering by the US National Security Agency have been making international headlines since early June when he first made his disclosures. |