Obama cancels meeting with Russia's Putin over Snowden case

President Obama has cancelled a scheduled meeting with Vladimir Putin next month because of... euronews, the most watched news channel in Europe Subscribe for your daily dose of international news, curated and explained:http://eurone.ws/10ZCK4a Euronews is available in 13 other languages: http://eurone.ws/17moBCU http://www.euronews.com/2013/08/07/ob... President Obama has cancelled a scheduled meeting with Vladimir Putin next month because of Moscow's decision to grant temporary asylum to former US intelligence analyst Edward Snowden. But he will go to Russia for the G20 summit in St Petersburg. This Friday's bilateral talks in Washington between high-level American and Russian officials will also go ahead. Appearing on NBC's "The Tonight Show," Obama criticised what he called Russia's "Cold War mentality". "I was disappointed because even though we don't have an extradition treaty with them, traditionally we have tried to respect if there's a law-breaker or an alleged law-breaker in their country, we evaluate it and we try to work with them. They didn't do that with us. And in some ways it's reflective of some underlying challenges that we've had with Russia lately," he told host Jay Leno. Obama didn't mention the planned meeting with Putin on the show, but Washington has since confirmed its cancellation. Snowden faces criminal charges in the US including espionage for disclosing details of secret surveillance programmes. His lawyer now says his client has registered a Russian address. Find us on: Youtube http://bit.ly/zr3upY Facebook   / euronews.fans   Twitter   / euronews