The Guardian published an article by Alec Luhn, Luke Harding, and Paul Lewis headlined "Edward Snowden asylum: US disappointed by Russian decision."
"The White House expressed anger and dismay on Thursday after Russia granted temporary asylum to the American whistleblower Edward Snowden and allowed him to leave the Moscow airport where he had been holed up for over a month," the article begins.
The authors inform that White House spokesman Jay Carney has already hinted that Barack Obama might now boycott a bilateral meeting with Putin in September, due to be held when the US president travels to Russia for a G20 summit.
According to the authors the US-Russiam relations are now as bad as during the Cold War.
"Russia's decision has emboldened hawkish critics of the White House, who have long dubbed Obama's attempts to improve relations with Putin as naive and inappropriate," the article reads.
"Russia's action today is a disgrace and a deliberate effort to embarrass the United States. It is a slap in the face of all Americans. Now is the time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with Putin's Russia," the authors quote Senator John McCain as saying.
