Revealed: Edward Snowden lives with his girlfriend in Moscow

A new documentary premiered in New York reveals that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, and his girlfriend are living in Moscow. The surprise revelation in the documentary, filmed by Laura Poitras, upends the widespread assumption that Snowden had deserted Lindsay Mills and that she, in a fit of pique, fled Hawaii where they had been living to stay with her parents in mainland US, The Guardian reported.

Since Snowden, a former NSA contractor, outed himself last year as being behind the biggest leak in US intelligence history, Mills has remained silent, giving no interviews or any hints of her feelings on the subject of her boyfriend or his actions. The two-hour long documentary, Citizenfour, shows Mills living in Russia with Snowden.

When the Guardian met Snowden in Moscow in July, Snowden suggested the relationship was more complex than the view constantly recycled in the media of a woman abandoned and hinted that the two were not in fact estranged. The two appear to have been together since at least 2009, living part of the time near Baltimore before moving to Hawaii in 2012.