Second son of Russian spies wins citizenship at least for now

Timothy Vavilov, 23, a Toronto-born son of Russian spies, has won a court victory that effectively affirms his Canadian citizenship, four years after the government rebuffed an attempt to renew his passport. But he and his brother, Alexander, have another hurdle to leap in the form of a Supreme Court challenge by federal government. Ottawa wishes to expel the two. Timothy’s interim win at the Federal Court of Canada follows a similar decision in the case of his younger brother, Alexander, 27. They are the sons of the now exposed and deported sleeper spies who lived in Toronto awaiting orders from the Kremlin. Their aliases were Donald Heathfield and Tracey Ann Foley. Heathfield and Foley later admitted to being Andrey Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova. Feds in last-minute bid to deport brothers born to spies