This article was last updated on April 16, 2022
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Majority of government officials and experts have refuted a report leaked this weekend claiming that Canadian diplomats in Russia are in direct physical danger. This Sunday, a Canadian Press article exposed a leaked memo which declared that Canada’s long-stayed embassy in Moscow is in danger of terrorist attacks and high-level espionage.
Refuting that memo, a government source revealed today that said memo was only a disregarded draft, perhaps written by a discontented staffer, and was definitely not officially sent to anyone in the authorities. He stated that “It was never addressed to the minister, it was never addressed to the deputy.” When this issue was raised in the House of Commons, on Monday, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Diane Ablonczy, responded that the government is taking serious notice of the leak and will also look over the possibility of investigating the event by the RCMP.
A professor of Carleton University, who is a well-known expert in Russia-Canada relations, Piotr Dutkiewic, agreed with the government’s stance on this issue. He alleged that the memo was definitely “exaggerated” and “misleading.” He explained that “the language [in the memo] that Moscow is a very dangerous place for diplomats, it’s obviously grossly exaggerated.”It was stated that “the person who wrote this does not know Moscow and the environment for the foreign diplomats living there. Whoever wrote this is misleading Canadian public opinion.”
Canada is scheduled to build and inaugurate a new embassy in Moscow around January 2016.
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