A court in Canada decided the fate of the son of four Russian spies deported from the United States

The Supreme Court of Canada decided not to deprive the citizenship of Alexander Vavilov, one of two sons deported from the USA in 2010 by the Russian spy Andrei Bezrukov, who lived in America under the name Donald Howard Heathfield. Now, according to media reports, he works for the Rosneft company, writes Air force.

Elena with children. Photo from the personal archive of Elena Vavilova

In the case of brother Vavilov, Timothy, the court has not yet made a decision.

The decision in favor of Vavilov was the end of a long lawsuit. Vavilov was born in 1994 in Toronto and received a Canadian passport as a child of the natives of Canada, Tracy Ann Foley and Donald Heathfield.

However, in 2010 it turned out that Vavilov’s parents were not natives of Canada, but Russian intelligence officers. In June 2010, ten Russian illegal intelligence agents (including Anna Chapman, who later became a famous TV presenter) were arrested by US intelligence agencies.

Among the scouts were Alexander's parents. Tracy Ann Foley turned out to be Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova, Donald Heathfield - Andrei Bezrukov. In December 2010, Eduard Khudaynatov, a member of the Board of Directors of Rosneft, confirmed that Bezrukov was working in this company.

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The son of the couple found out that his parents are Russian spies, simultaneously with the whole world. He was then 16 years old. Then he found out that Foley was not his real last name.

At least the Supreme Court proceeded from this when making a decision.

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In 2010, the Vavilov brothers went to Europe with a visit to Russia on a tourist visa. However, they were destined to leave Russia only after eight years.

Elena with children in Los Angeles. Photo from the personal archive of Elena Vavilova

Soon after leaving the United States, their parents were deported, exchanging for four Russians convicted of espionage in their homeland. These were the scientist Igor Sutyagin and former intelligence officers Sergey Skripal, Alexander Zaporizhsky and Gennady Vasilenko.

In a few interviews, Alexander Vavilov said that it was difficult for him to adapt to Russian reality, and Canada was the only place for him and his brother to feel at home. Alexander left the old name in Russia, Timothy became Timothy.

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Vavilov twice tried to renew his Canadian passport through the embassy in Moscow. They refused him twice, despite the fact that he provided all the necessary documents. The last time this happened in 2012. The final out-of-court decision on citizenship cases is made by the citizen registration agency.

In May last year, the Canadian government began the process of canceling Vavilov’s citizenship, but failed. In accordance with Canadian law, citizenship is granted to every child born in Canada, with the exception, for example, of children of foreign diplomats.

Elena with her husband. Photo from the personal archive of Elena Vavilova

The registration service said that the spy child and the child of a diplomat are, from a legal point of view, the same thing. The children of the Vavilovs, although born in Canada, were subject to legislative exclusion, and therefore they would not receive citizenship, the registration service said.

After that, the Vavilovs went to court. The lawsuit lasted six years, but in April 2018, 23-year-old Alex Vavilov returned to Toronto with a Canadian passport.

The Ottawa court took his side, and the government appealed to the highest court - the Supreme Court.

On Thursday, the citizenship of Alex Vavilov was finally confirmed. His brother's case is pending in court.

The history of the unmasked scouts formed the basis of the cult series “The Americans” (The Americans), however, what the Russian intelligence officers actually did during their long decades of life in the USA is kept secret until now. The recently released book of one of ten arrested Russians, retired colonel of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Elena Vavilova, “A Woman Who Can Keep Secrets,” slightly opens the curtain of secrecy. Elena admits: although many of the points described in the book are fictional or deliberately changed, the essence of the story, and most importantly, her personal experiences described in it, remain autobiographical.

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