The Terminal: Snowden stuck in Moscow airport, 'can't buy ticket with invalid passport'

rt ^ | 6/26 | rt

[Oztrich Boy]

Yes but it's more than permission to re-enter your home country. It's also a statement from your government to others to facilitate your travel.

The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, being the representative in Australia of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, requests all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer, an Australian Citizen, to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford him or her every assistance and protection of which he or she may stand in need.

The Obamaland version probably substitutes "expects" for "requests"

[Freelance Warrior]

“Vedomosti”, a Russian newspaper, was told by a Moscow-based lawer, that by cancelling Snowden’s passport the U.S. government has created “an emergency situation” according to the Russian law, which makes Snowden eligible for elongating his transit visa, if he has one. If he doesn’t, he commits a mesdemeanor punished with $30 fine.

[Travis McGee]

Indeed!