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In fairness, Russia flat out deny ALL extradition requests for their own citizens.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/22/russia.lukehar...

A commendable stance, IMHO. (From a most uncommendable unregime).

They also have no extradition treaty at all with the US. Hence why Snowden is there, I guess.



It's certainly not legal loopholes that keep Snowden away from being handed over but a decision of one man. Russian constitution also has a lot of great things in it, like freedom of speech, freedom of association, two terms limit on presidency, immutability of borders and priority of international treaties - all of which were stomped when it became politically expedient.




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