United States whistleblower Edward Snowden has said in a response to people who think defectors who go to Russia end up drunk and isolated, that he was happy and that Russia was "great".
According to the Washington Post, Snowden said that he never drinks and that he has never been drunk in his life.
His statement came as a response to the former CIA director who said that Snowden would end up like most of the defectors who went to Russia, isolated, depressed and drunk.
Snowden has been living in Moscow since the Russian government offered him asylum more than one year ago.
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