mutual legal assistance treaty right right so does that mean that once the two countries sign such a treaty we could actually x. rayed snowden in exchange for i don't know let's say because there would know we can't but why not. russia couldn't extradite snowden even if we've had this treaty with the us. oh so we're just being sly and we don't really mean what we say about the exhibition agreement with the us he hasn't committed any crimes in russia the us government says he has committed crimes in the us to these i respond send us an official request even though there is no treaty send us an official request as required by international law. but we never received one to this day. we got a statement from the u.s. attorney general saying snowden is suspected of a number of crimes but he won't face death penalty but excuse me but it's not up to the tony general to decide that only the court can decide that. we talk about human rights in the u.s. people admire this country's democracy it is true there are many good democratic institutions in the u.s. but at the same time as we see from