I experience cognitive dissonance when I try to imagine Mr Putin go into the trouble of granting political asylum to Snowden because of sharing his ideals.))) On the other hand, to extradite him to the USA means display political weakness, the quality that the Russian president simply cannot afford...

As to the country that could host Snowden, I still think that despite the fact that Snowdan wasn’t found by Austrian police on board the president’s plane, the Plurinational State of Bolivia seems the most probable next destination place for the whistleblower for now.