Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov attend a ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany in 1941 in Moscow

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, left, shown at a ceremony in Moscow on Saturday, made it clear Tuesday that Russia won’t expel Edward Snowden, who as a transit passenger “is entitled to buy a ticket and fly to wherever he wants.”