article_snippet.sent: Andrei Soldatov accused the former US spy of not being ‘transparent’ and said Andrei Soldatov was being ‘secretive’ about Andrei Soldatov arrangements with the Russian authorities.
article_snippet.sent: The decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen as a snub to US President Barack Obama at a time when relations between the two countries are strained.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Soldatov, who runs a website which is an online watchdog of Mr Putin’s intelligence agencies, spoke out in an interview with the Daily Beast, a US news and culture website.
article_snippet.sent: Vladimir) Putin last April during Putin’s annual question-and-answer press conference about mass surveillance in Russia.