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.

In a significant development, the heads of the CIA and Russias foreign intelligence agency, SVR, have agreed to maintain regular communication. According to Russian news reports, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin spoke by phone on Tuesday,

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.

The heads of U.S. and Russian spy agencies spoke by phone and agreed to keep up regular contacts to lower the temperature in U.S.-Russia relations, Russian news reports say.

The heads of the U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies spoke by phone and agreed to maintain regular contact in an effort to ease tensions between the two countries, Russian state media reported Wednesday.