National Post has an even more interesting article on his stay in HK [0].
And I hope this finally lays to rest all those BS accusations that Snowden's a 'russian spy' and how he 'partied at the Russian consulate in HK'... like Washington Post disinfo kept on repeating for years. [1] There are people still on Twitter who are smearing Snowden and they claim he's a spy and everything he did was to somehow 'help Putin' and they bring up this nonsense.
[0] http://news.nationalpost.com/features/how-edward-snowden-esc...
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/report-snowden-stayed-a...