Obama: ‘I Don’t Have A Bad Personal Relationship With Putin’

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to the media following a meeting with the Finland's President Sauli Niinisto at the presidential summer residence Kultaranta in Naantali, Finland, Tuesday June 25, 2013.
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President Barack Obama on Friday rejected the notion that his rapport with Russian President Vladimir Putin has suffered in recent days in midst of NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s temporary asylum in the country.

“I don’t have a bad personal relationship with Putin,” Obama told reporters at a White House news conference, characterizing their conversations as “candid” and “blunt.”

“When we have conservations together, often times they’re productive,” he added.

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