Even if Snowden could leave the country somehow, where to? Even in Afghanistan he would be just a drone strike away from heaven - not that they'd bewelcoming him either.
Aside: for a moment I confused with Sergei B. Korolev with Sergei Korolev, the famous Ukrainian rocket engineer.
Maybe China would take him? It would have to be a country that would no extradite him but also be able to provide him physical shelter. American spymasters should really fuckoff and leave him alone.
I will start to bet on Admiral Kouznetsov for all those fires in russia... it clearly works for the CIA... it's bribery was not being sink when NATO cross the border