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by mmariani 4723 days ago
Apparently [1:36] Snowden really is at the Russian airport, unlike some have been speculating [0].

[0] http://world.time.com/2013/07/10/snowden-in-moscow-what-are-...

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Where is he living and sleeping though? On the chairs in the transit area? How does he handle basic logistics such as laundry, personal hygiene etc? I'm imagining that he is staying inside a hotel in the transit area (many airports have those), but if not, my heart really goes out to him.
He's staying rather comfortably at the "V-express" hotel in the transit zone of Sheremetyevo airport.

http://www.eng.v-exp.ru/

I'm curious how he's paying for it. Surely the US froze his credit cards/etc by now.
That's the first thing I wondered about when he left Hong Kong. Did he just pull out a bunch of cash at an ATM first?
Just a guess but if I were him Id have acquired some bitcoin before leaving. Learning from wikileaks ....
Wikileaks
I don't think it's known where he is staying exactly. But there's an article by CNN reporter investigating different places where he could be living: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/11/world/europe/russia-snowde...
When he left Hong Kong he was accompanied by Sarah Harrison from Wikileaks. She is sitting next to him in the video.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harrison_(journalist)