Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama assigned the directors of CIA and FSB to find a way to cope with the trouble caused by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden’s stay in a Moscow airport

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama assigned the directors of CIA and FSB to find a way to cope with the trouble caused by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden's stay in a Moscow airport, a senior official said on Monday.

"As Putin and Obama don't have a solution now that would work for both sides, they have ordered the chiefs of their respective security agencies (CIA and FSB) to keep in constant contact and find solutions," the head of Russia's Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said in an interview with state television channel Rossiya 24.