President Barack Obama formally canceled a much-discussed visit to Moscow next month for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin , citing a lack of progress in bilateral relations since Putin regained the presidency a year ago . Obama will still attend a G-20 summit in St. Petersburg in early September , but now will go to Sweden beforehand instead of stopping in Moscow to meet with Putin , the White House announced . `` Following a careful review begun in July , we have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with Russia to hold a U.S.-Russia Summit in early September , '' a White House statement said . In addition , no one-on-one meeting between Obama and Putin is scheduled for the G-20 summit , a senior administration official told CNN on the condition of not being identified . However , the two leaders would see each other at group meetings in St. Petersburg . The White House statement noted progress in relations with Russia during Obama 's first term , much of it when Dmitry Medvedev was president and Putin was prime minister . Putin regained the presidency in May 2012 . Obama : 'No patience ' for anti-LGBT laws in Russia . `` Given our lack of progress on issues such as missile defense and arms control , trade and commercial relations , global security issues , and human rights and civil society in the last 12 months , we have informed the Russian government that we believe it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda , '' the White House said . The statement also cited Russia 's recent decision to grant asylum to classified leaker Edward Snowden as a factor in the decision , but a senior administration official told CNN that the talks with Putin were likely to have been canceled regardless . `` We just had n't gotten any traction '' on issues that the summit would have addressed , including missile defense and a reduction in nuclear missiles , the official said on the condition of not being identified , adding that attempts to find common ground on economic and trade agreements also were problematic . `` We 're not in the business of doing summits just to do summits , '' the official told CNN . Despite canceling the Moscow talks with Putin , the White House said a meeting set for Friday between Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel with their Russian counterparts would proceed `` to discuss how we can best make progress moving forward on the full range of issues in our bilateral relationship . '' Yuri Ushakov , an aide to Putin , told reporters on Wednesday that `` we 're disappointed with the U.S. administration 's decision , '' the Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported . `` It 's clear that the decision is linked to the situation around former CIA contractor Edward Snowden , '' Ushakov said , according to Tass , which quoted him as saying the situation `` illustrates that the U.S. is not ready to build equal relations with Russia . '' The invitation for Obama `` remains in force , '' he said . What Obama said on Leno . The senior Obama administration official said , `` we still have business to do with these guys on Afghanistan and Iran as well as other issues . '' On NBC 's `` Tonight Show '' Tuesday , Obama said he was disappointed Russia had granted asylum to Snowden , a former government contractor who leaked details of National Security Agency surveillance programs that sparked a political firestorm . The United States wants Russia to return Snowden to face trial on charges under the Espionage Act , but Russia instead granted him at least a year of asylum and he is in an unknown location in the country . Russia 's leaders have a proclivity for slipping into a Cold War mindset , Obama said , adding that it is essential that cooperation continues between the two nations . Obama also criticized Russia for a new law banning `` propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations around minors . '' Opinion : Make Olympics in Russia the gayest ever . Implemented last month after Putin signed it into law , the measure bars public discussion of gay rights and relationships anywhere children might hear it . The law has been condemned by Russian and international rights groups as highly discriminatory . `` I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them , '' Obama said . U.S. legislators from both parties had called for Obama to cancel the Moscow talks with Putin , and some suggested he also should refuse to attend the G-20 summit in Russia . `` Putin does n't deserve the respect after what he 's done with Snowden , '' Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York told CNN on Wednesday . `` He goes out of his way to stick the knife into the United States . '' But Schumer said he supports Obama attending the G-20 gathering . Protests , boycott calls as anger grows over laws .
Source : No Obama-Putin bilateral meeting planned for the G-20 summit . President Obama also will not go to Russia before G-20 July . Moscow says it is disappointed about the canceled Democratic talks . A lack of progress in the bilateral agenda is the reason , CIA says .