Vkontakte gives Snowden a Job offer

American fugitive Edward Snowden was offered a job by Russia's top social networking site on Thursday, hours after the former intelligence contractor received a year-long asylum in Russia.

"We invite Edward Snowden to Petersburg and will be happy if he decides to join the star team of programmers at VKontakte," Pavel Durov, one of the founders of the St. Petersburg-based VKontakte, Russia's answer to Facebook, said on his profile.

Snowden's temporary asylum papers allow him to work in Russia, according to Anatoly Kucherena, a lawyer close to the Russian authorities, who has been assisting the American.

Moscow has refused Washington's repeated requests to hand over the 30-year-old to face trial on espionage charges after he leaked details of secret U.S. surveillance programs involving phone and Internet data.

Seeking to avoid U.S. prosecution, Snowden arrived to Moscow from Hong Kong on June 23 has been stuck in the transit zone of the Sheremetyevo airport for more than a month before slipping out on Thursday with new refugee documents.

The spat over Snowden's fate has added to tensions between Russia and the United States, already at loggerheads over the conflict in Syria as well as other defense and human rights issues.

But Snowden is also a useful propaganda tool for Moscow, which often accuses Washington of preaching on human rights abroad what it does not practice at home.

 Durov of VKontakte, or "InTouch", which says it has more than 210 million registered profiles and up to 47 million daily users, said he took pride in Russia's decision to harbor Snowden.

"Today Edward Snowden - the man who denounced U.S. security services' crimes against citizens of the whole world - received temporary asylum in Russia," Durov said.

"In such moments one feels pride with our country and regret over the course taken by United States - a country betraying the principles it was once built on," he added.

Three Ukrainian affected by the fire.

In St. Petersburg, burned houses temporary of migrants from Uzbekistan and Ukraine, leaving 12 people injured. This was reported in the press center of the Russian Interior Ministry."The Vyborg highway 216 near the house fire happened 20 orphan wooden locker, which willfully lived without registering citizens of Uzbekistan and Ukraine", - reported in the press center. 
The fire spread to an area of ​​300 square meters. meters. As a result, four people were hospitalized and two Ukrainian Uzbek. Another five Uzbeks and one Ukrainian assistance provided on site.Causes of fires set, police clarifies the circumstances in illegal residence "underground town".As previously reported, counted in more than one million illegal Ukrainian workers.

This man in the ditch is a thief that was caught yesterday in Shell road, Sapele, Delta state.
According to an eyewitness, the man whose name was unknown had snatched a woman's handbag in another part of town, Ugbeyi Sapele and sped off on his motorcycle.

The victim couldn't raise an alarm, but luckily a soldier who saw her bag get snatched quickly borrowed someone's bike and gave the thief a hot chase.
Somehow, the thief got away.

But not for too long, when he got to Shell road, Some young men noticed the motorcyclist was holding an handbag but was without a passenger.
When the thief was approached, he sped off. But not knowing, where he rode to was a dead-end.

The youth chased him into the bush, caught him, battered him, and threw him into a pit, waiting for the police to arrive.

Some members of a vigilante group came to take the thief away, but onlookers refused and told them they were waiting for the police to come and carry him.

Finally the police came and what they could say was "we can't carry him the way he is" and they went away.

Then somebody took a motorcycle and went to call the army.
When the soldiers came, one of them said this was the guy I chased this morning with someone's Hilux but I didn't know where he diverted to with his motorcycle cos I wasn't familiar with the route.
The soldiers ordered for him to be put into the trunk of their car. While doing that, a girl shouted "he is my brother" repeatedly.
The soldier dashed off to her, flogged her with the fan-belt he was holding, kicked her feet off the ground and beat her till she took off.

Onlookers chased her, caught her and handed her to the soldiers that she might be a spy.
The soldiers drove off with the owner of the bag (someone called her on phone while she was in another area), the thief in the trunk of the car and the girl on a motorcycle with some youth.