Scott Shifrel, Helen Kennedy and Michael Sheridan of the NYDaily News reported that:

The 11th suspect in an alleged Russian spy ring straight out of the Cold War has been busted in Cyprus.

Canadian citizen Robert Christopher Metsos, 54, was detained at Larnaca airport as he tried to leave the island for Budapest, police said. He was arrested and later released on bail, according to Reuters.

"Based on the (Interpol) red notice we received, he is wanted for money laundering and espionage," police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos told Reuters, regarding why he was arrested.

Moscow, meanwhile, has called the arrests of the alleged secret agents "baseless and improper."

"We do not understand what prompted the U.S. Justice Department to make a public statement in the spirit of Cold War espionage," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

"Such incidents have occurred in the past, when our relations were on the rise," the ministry said on its Web site. "In any case it is regrettable that all these things are happening on the background of the 'reset' in Russian-U.S. relations announced by the U.S. administration."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the timing of the announcement and arrests seemed significant, but did not elaborate, according to CNN.

The FBI announced Monday it had smoked out a nest of 11 Russian spies who spent decades under "long-term deep cover" - living as ordinary suburbanites with lawns and minivans while gathering information for Moscow.

The amazing charges were laid out in a federal complaint that reads like an old-school spy thriller, packed on every page with invisible inks, mysterious meetings and secrets sent by shortwave radio.

Some of the four accused couples, including residents of Montclair, N.J., and Yonkers, even had children together to make their cover more realistic.

"The evidence here is overwhelming. It is simple. It is strong," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz at a hearing in Manhattan.

"This is a Russian agent!" he said, gesturing dramatically at one of the suspects, Anna Chapman, a demure divorced 28-year-old who said she founded an online real estate company worth $2 million.

Ten suspects were recently arrested and held without bail, five of them in New York.

Has the cold war started back up or did it never really end?

Is this as sugested by the Russians a change in US poliecy?

Is it possible that the Russians were spying on some other country's behalf?