Putin sings along with spies

Russia's Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, said he had met Russian spies swapped in an exchange with the United States this month and promised them a bright future in Russia.

Putin, who served as a KGB agent in West Germany during the Soviet era, did not say where he met the spies but said they sang together Soviet songs and he told them he admired what they did.

"As far as those people are concerned - everyone of them had a tough life," said Putin. "First [problem] was to master foreign language as your own. Think and speak it and do what are you told to do for the interest of your motherland for many years without counting on diplomatic immunity."