Germany’s security chief wants to arrange a meeting with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden if he is willing to provide details about the agency’s activities including the alleged surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone.

The father of former National Security Agency agent Edward Snowden has arrived in Moscow to meet his son who received asylum in Russia in August.

The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has denied speculation that the American whistleblower Edward Snowden was interrogated by Russian authorities.

It’s always hard leaving home but there was a cruel irony in the way Aer Lingus gave me 48 more hours in Ireland this week.

President Barack Obama said yesterday he was “disappointed” that Russia had granted temporary asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden left the transit zone of a Moscow airport yesterday and officially entered Russia after authorities granted him asylum for a year, a move that suggests the Kremlin isn’t shying away from further conflict with the US.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia for one year and left the transit zone of Moscow airport, his lawyer says.

The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to torture or execute Edward Snowden if he is sent home to face charges of illegally disclosing government secrets, and the Kremlin said Russian and US security agencies are in talks over his fate.

US sanctions against any country offering asylum to Edward Snowden have advanced in Congress as the 30-year-old National Security Agency leaker remained in a Moscow airport while Russia weighed a request for him to stay permanently.

The White House said it wants "clarity" from Russia on the status of fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Edward Snowden plans to seek asylum in Russia, an MP among those meeting the NSA leaker said today.

Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then deleted it.

Icelandic MPs have introduced a proposal in parliament to grant immediate citizenship to US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, who revealed key details of American surveillance activities.

There was a flurry of excitement when it emerged Edward Snowden applied to Ireland for asylum, but it may not have been a wise move, says Noel Baker.

Whistleblower Edward Snowden’s attempts to seek refuge have hit problems after he cancelled his asylum bid in Russia and several European countries said any applications would not be considered if they were made from abroad.

The whistleblower Edward Snowden has accused President Obama of "wheeling and dealing" in attempts to block his efforts to seek asylum.

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden will have to stop leaking US secrets if he wants to get asylum in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday — but he believes he has no intention of doing so.

Venezuela has joined Ecuador in saying it would consider an asylum request from the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Liam Mackey reflects on the memorable moments, on and off the pitch, from Ireland’s Euro 2012 qualifying campaign

Russia’s long dominant party appeared likely to lose its edge as voters across the sprawling country cast ballots for Parliament today, many of them frustrated over corruption and the gap between ordinary Russians and the super-rich.

NOW this is the kind of Eurozone contagion we can all handle.

GREETINGS from Moscow where, with our usual sense of timing, we arrived here late on Sunday night and managed to miss the Russian capital’s annual ‘City Day’ by a matter of hours.

Another victim of the Moscow airport suicide bombing has died in hospital, taking the death toll to 36, Russian officials said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said today the attackers behind the deadly Moscow airport blast wanted to bring Russia "to its knees" and thwart his bid to court foreign investment.

Russian Prime minister Vladimir Putin today vowed: “Retribution is inevitable” over the Moscow airport suicide bombing.

Officials of the Moscow airport where a suicide bomber killed 35 people must bear responsibility for security failures there, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said today.

A suicide bomber killed more than 35 people and injured scores more at Moscow’s busiest airport today.

Three people died when a passenger plane caught fire and then exploded on a runway at a Siberian airport, Russian officials said today.

Russian transport bosses were carpeted by prime minister Vladimir Putin and banned from taking New Year holidays after freezing weather brought chaos to Moscow.

Moscow: Russian authorities detained four men who arrived at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on a flight from Istanbul with €15.2 million in cash.

Two people were killed and 83 injured when a passenger jet with 155 people on board skidded off the runway during an emergency landing at a Moscow airport today, Russian officials said.

One person died and eight others were injured when a passenger jet with 155 people on board skidded off the runway at Moscow airport after all three of its engines failed, Russian news agencies said today.

A 17-year-old stowaway survived a 50-minute flight hidden in the plane’s landing gear, Russian investigators said today.

RUSSIA’S foreign minister has urged that child adoptions to the US be frozen after an American woman put an eight-year-old Russian boy she had adopted on a one-way flight back to Moscow unaccompanied.

A passenger jet travelling from Moscow to the Ural Mountains city of Perm crashed while preparing to land early today, killing all 88 people aboard, officials said.

AER RIANTA has won one of its largest ever contracts which will see it develop operations at a new terminal at Moscow Airport. The deal will generate sales of more than €1 billion over seven years.

A jet carrying three crew members but no passengers crashed at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport today, emergency and aviation officials said.

Russia’s Transport Ministry said today that experts had discovered radiation on a Finnair plane in a Moscow airport.

A former Russian security service officer said in a letter from prison released today that he had warned former spy Alexander Litvinenko years ago that the KGB’s main successor agency had formed a death squadron to kill him and other Kremlin foes.

George Bush was expected to hold a highly unusual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin today when the US president’s plane makes a refuelling stop at a Moscow airport on the way to Asia.

Russia today suspended all transport and postal links with neighbouring Georgia until further notice, the transport and communications ministries said.

I LIVE beside the sea, where the arrival of the seasons is announced on the avian public address system.

An airliner careered off a rain-slicked runway, ploughed into adjacent garages and burst into flames in the Siberian city of Irkutsk early today.

The prime minister of Russia’s conflict-torn province of Chechnya was in a serious but stable condition today after a car crash outside Moscow that officials insisted was a traffic accident despite initial concerns about a possible assassination attempt.