The announcement appeared in small text on the Russian president's website: "Let me speak from my heart: Edward Snowden is a Russian Citizen. Thanks to @homakov!"
The Twitter handle belongs to Egor Homakov, a security researcher with a penetration testing group called Sakurity, which does freelance consulting.
Homakov's spoof message didn't actually appear on Vladimir Putin's website. Instead, Homakov found a trick that allowed him to modify content delivered to a user from Google Translate, which he describes on his blog.
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