We're going to wrap up our live blog coverage for the day. Here is a summary of where things stand:

• Russian president Vladimir Putin said Edward Snowden is in the transit zone of the Moscow airport, said Russian intelligence agencies had not been in contact with him, and said Snowden was free to leave. He said Russia would not extradite Snowden to the United States. Speculation abounded, however, that FSB agents have indeed made contact with Snowden.

• US secretary of state John Kerry called on Russia to hand Snowden over to the United States. The White House put former Moscow envoy Bill Burns in charge of persuading Russia to do so.

• China sharply rejected US criticism of the decision to allow Snowden to leave Hong Kong. The Hong Kong justice secretary said the US request for Snowden's arrest could not be processed because Snowden's name was spelled three different ways in official documents: "I couldn’t say the three names were consistent, so we needed further clarification."