Carleton University: Russia

The Institute Of European And Russian Studies Dept: Piotr Dutkiewicz, director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies at Carleton University, said the federal government's thinking toward Russia is outmoded, according to Montreal Gazette. Although official diplomatic relations have proceeded steadily, there is a layer of frost on the relationship that is hampering closer ties and more trade, observers say and canada and Russia are waging a "Cold War lite" two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, experts say, following news that a Canadian naval officer was slapped with espionage charges and accused of selling top-secret information to a foreign entity. "The Canadian government is stuck in a Cold War mentality," he said. "We now have a Cold War lite." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.