The head of the Russian parliament's foreign affairs committee Alexei Pushkov said Tuesday Edward Snowden has accepted Venezuela's offer of political asylum. Pushkov acted as unofficial point-man for the Kremlin on the Snowden affair, since he landed at Moscow international airport on June 23,. Russian refused to extradite him to the US for leaking details of a US intelligence monitoring program. Snowden has not been seen since he took refuge in the airport’s transit zone.