This just in

[Katz, Michael R.]

>From today's New York Times:

Mr. Kucherena, a supporter of President Vladimir V. Putin who reportedly<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g8VxMJ-Rk1g2-rCyqzjdO2zmuHdw?docId=CNG.4d19f8675cf9b564045e6e60706bbcbd.c1> sits on the public council of the Federal Security Service, the successor to the K.G.B., told the press scrum<https://twitter.com/tombartonjourno/status/360042404272828416> that he had brought his client a change of clothes and English translations of books by three Russian authors — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov and Nikolai Karamzin — that might help Mr. Snowden, an American, learn about the nation around the airport he has been trapped in for the past month.

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