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American fugitive Edward Snowden, who is currently refuged in Russia, has expressed that he is not apologetic for exposing NSA's expansive spying programs to the world.

In his first ever interview, six months after he arrived in Moscow, the whistlebower revealed that his mission's already accomplished'.

'I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated,' he said.

Snowden explained that he didn't intend to reform society by releasing NSA's secret wiretapping programs. Rather, he sought to make the public aware of it and then decide if they were comfortable with such wide-reaching intelligence gathering.

Soon after the his first reports made a splash in media, his U.S. Passport was blocked and he was barred from entering the state.

President Vladimir Putin eventually agreed to give Snowden a temporary asylum in the country last August, but Snowden still seems uneasy in his current home.

“Snowden says he lives off ramen noodles and chips and spends most of his hours on the internet keeping up on the progress of his cause back in the states,” reports Daily Mail.

'It has always been really difficult to get me to leave the house,' he said. 'I just don't have a lot of needs...Occasionally there's things to go do, things to go see, people to meet, tasks to accomplish, But it's really got to be goal-oriented, you know. Otherwise, as long as I can sit down and think and write and talk to somebody, that's more meaningful to me than going out and looking at landmarks.'

Snowden is believed to still have a cache of NSA documents in his possession, making him an uncomfortable Russian resident for the Obama administration.

Rick Ledgett, the NSA's incoming deputy director, told 60 Minutes that Snowden is estimated to be in the possession of 1.7million documents and that he would favor giving the whistleblower amnesty to get those secrets back.

There are already rumors that Snowden may have already brokered the documents over to the Chinese or Putin - his current protector. But Snowden denies such allegations saying the documents were secured in a safe place, and that he doesn't even have any of the information on his laptop's hard drive or in Russia at all.

AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury