Baku-APA. Fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden will leave Russia when opportunity emerges, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
"This (the Snowden issue) has been hanging so far but as soon as the opportunity appears to move somewhere, he (Snowden) of course will do that," Putin reportedly said at a meeting with local students in the Leningrad region.