Dmitri Lennikov

Here is another timely case dealing with Canadian citizenship.

Dmitri Lennikov is a young Russian-Canadian who has been living in this country with his family for more than a decade. His father, Mikhail, emigrated from Russia in 1997 after leaving a post (voluntarily) within the KGB’s Japanese unit, where he worked largely to monitor the activities of Japanese businessmen and investors in Russia. Upon reaching Canada Mikhail immediately disclosed his involvement with the KGB to CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Mikhail soon brought his wife and young child with him to Canada, and has been steadily and gainfully employed ever since. Nonetheless, the Lennikov’s status in Canada has always been shaky, with the entire family facing the acute chance of deportation in 2008; a dangerous outcome considering that Mikhail would face prosecution (and possibly persecution) for revealing his KGB background to CSIS. Thankfully, Dmitri and his mother were recently spared the threat of deportation.

Mikhail, however, is still at risk, and further statements of support for the entire Lennikov family would be much appreciated. There is a big Facebook community dedicated to helping Dmitri that houses plenty of information and links related to the case in general. It has mailing and fax address for politicians (some of which I have included below) as well as stock letters. There is also a terrific CBC documentary profiling the Lennikovs that is still freely available; I highly recommend watching it.

Here is the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=33363813633

And here is the documentary: http://www.cbc.ca/MRL/clips/rm-hi/macintyre-kgbagent070316.rm

The following is taking from the above Facebook page:

Write a letter to Peter Van Loan, and his email address is: vanloan.p@parl.gc.ca. asking him to extend the deadline

His mailing address is:
Room 209-S
Centre Block
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6


**Also Try The Following***
Peter Van Loan - vanloan.p@parl.gc.ca
Stephen Harper - pm@pm.gc.ca
Mark Holland - Holland.M@parl.gc.ca
Jack Harris - Harris.J@parl.gc.ca
Jack Layton - Layton.J@parl.gc.ca
Michael Ignatief - Ignatieff.M@parl.gc.ca
*******Immigration Minister- Kenney.J@parl.gc.ca******
Liberal party - info@liberal.ca
David Tilson - tilsod@parl.gc.ca
Maurizio Bevilacqua – bevilm@parl.gc.ca
Thierry St-Cyr - stcyrt@parl.gc.ca
Paul Calandra – calandra.p@parl.gc.ca
Olivia Chow – chowo@parl.gc.ca
Jean Dorion – dorion.j@parl.gc.ca
Rick Dykstra – dykstr@parl.gc.ca
Nina Grewal – grewal.n@parl.gc.ca
Jim Karygiannis – karygj@parl.gc.ca
Alexandra Mendes – mendes.a@parl.gc.ca
Devinder Shory – shory.d@parl.gc.ca
Alice Wong – wong.a@parl.gc.ca

or sign our online petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Lennikov/

Also keep inviting more people so we gain as much support as we can for the Lennikov family