NSA-secret leaker Edward Snowden gained temporary asylum last week in Russia, a move called “insignificant” by aides to Russian President Vladimir Putin but one that angered White House and State Department officials. Speaking to Fox News prior to the Snowden announcement, Senior Fellow Steven Pifer, director of the Arms Control Initiative at Brookings, called the episode a “distraction” and correctly predicted that the chances that Russia would send Snowden back to the U.S. were “zero.” In the interview, Pifer looked beyond the Snowden imbroglio to a range of U.S.-Russia bilateral opportunities and challenges.