By Dean Beeby, CBC News, May 26, 2016
Moving day for Canada’s crumbling embassy in Moscow pushed off again, costing taxpayers millions
Canadian taxpayers are spending almost $25 million in rent for an empty building in Moscow, as grand plans to relocate Canada’s embassy to a new location in the Russian capital remain mired in a dense thicket of red tape and global politics.
The Harper government signed a 20-year lease for a modern red-brick building at 4 Kursovoy Street in March 2008, at a current annual rent of $2.4 million.
