MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, held a phone call on Tuesday with the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. They discussed issues of cooperation between their respective intelligence agencies and crisis management.

John Ratcliffe, Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, and Sergei Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, held a telephone conversation on 11 March. Source: European Pravda,

The rare exchange between SVR and CIA signals a potential shift in Washington-Moscow relations.