| ® | Fugitive | 109 resulted in an international incident but did not change the fact that Snowden was still in the custody of Russian authorities. Snowden came to realize that those assisting him, including Assange and Harrison, were taking serious risks. “Anyone ina three- mile radius [of me] is going to get hammered,” he later said in 2015 to a reporter from Vogue. (After finally leaving Snowden in Moscow on November 3, 2013, Harrison moved to Berlin, where she set up an organization to provide, as she termed it, “an underground rail- road” for other fugitives who had made available documents expos- ing government secrets.) Snowden was sequestered in the transit zone of the Moscow air- port for thirty-seven days. A Russian intermediary provided him with a Russian classic to read while awaiting asylum. It was Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, whose protagonist, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, is a dissenter who believes breaking the law is morally justified by the unfair abuses of the political system. Snowden received official sanctuary in Russia on August 1, 2013. His public statements in Hong Kong that he was willing to go to © prison so that others could live freely in a democratic society were, re) as it turned out, mere rhetoric. Instead of risking prison, he had suc- cessfully escaped to a country in which he would be treated as a hero for defying the U.S. government. He had not sacrificed himself; he had transformed himself. He had risen from being a lowly techni- cian in Hawaii whose talents went largely unrecognized to the status of an international media star in Moscow. In his new role, he could make Internet appearances via Skype to prestigious gatherings, such as the TED conference, where he would be roundly applauded as an Internet hero, as well as be paid a $20,000 fee for just his electronic participation. He would be beamed into dozens of ACLU meetings where he was celebrated as a defender of American liberty. He would describe to sym