title: Canada Russia Relations: Introduction
abstract: Those looking for good news stories on Canada-Russia relations in recent years will have found instead headlines with keywords and phrases such as 'disinformation', 'cyber threats', 'propaganda', 'Kremlin lashes out', 'dysfunctional', 'election meddling', 'major threat', 'damaged relations', 'failure of democratization', and 'anti-Russian sanctions'. Canada-Russia relations are indeed at a low ebb following the 2014 annexation of Crimea and crisis in Ukraine. Yet as the world's two largest state
journal: The Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies