Talk:Viktor Belenko

message: An IP editor added the following comment to the article:
:It is absolutly untrue that President Jimmy Carger granted a citizenship  to Belenco.  Please check the US Immigration Law that a foreigner must  become a permanent resident first and wait for five years and then apply  for the citizenship.  The US President cannot grant a US citizenship to  anyone. Repeat, Please check the citizenship law with the Immigration  Office.  Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.243.14.114 (talk) 01:44,  February 21, 2010
The answer to this is that the immigration law the IP editor refers to is not material.
As discussed and cited in the article, Belenko's citizenship was granted by a private law, i.e. an act of Congress addressing a particular individual.  Congress has the plenary authority to grant citizenship, and can enact a statute that grants citizenship to an individual, even if the other existing laws (which are, after all, just either also statutes passed by Congress, or regulations subordinate to a congressional statute) would have called for a different result had the private law not been enacted.
See Private Law no. 96-62, 96th Cong. S.2961, A bill for the relief of Viktor Ivanovich  Belenko, October 14, 1980, for more information on the law granting Belenko citizenship. TJRC (talk) 03:14, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Citizenship grant 

message: Since this is coming up yet again (an IP editor just incorrectly changed "authorizing citizenship" to "authorizing permanent residency"), let's make this clear.
See Private Law no. 96-62, 96th Cong. S.2961, A bill for the relief of Viktor Ivanovich  Belenko, October 14, 1980, cited in the article.  Clicking on "CRS Summary takes you to , which describes the bill: "Declares a named individual to have satisfied specified requirements under the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to required periods of residence and physical presence within the United States.  Authorizes such individual to be naturalized."   To be naturalized, i.e., to be granted citizenship.  Not "permanent residency"; citizenship.  TJRC (talk) 21:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US citizenship yet again 

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message: This paragraph appeared and disappeared in the article few years ago:
:The financial impact of Belenko's defection was enormous. The Soviet Ministry of Defence abandoned the construction of two aircraft carriers in favour of fully replacing the system of target-classification on all Soviet military aircrafts and spent over 2 billion roubles to that end. For comparison, a top-ranked Soviet military official was earning 400 roubles a month - a big sum of money at that time.
This kind of information, sourced, would be useful addition to the text. Pavel Vozenilek (talk) 14:35, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impact 

message: I came here to find out why - there's no information in the article that suggests why he defected. This seems rather a glaring omission...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.222.23.139 (talk) 20:37, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why did he defect? 

message: How could he have married (and later divorced) an American if he never divorced his Soviet wife? This is legally impossible.122.59.140.215 (talk) 08:30, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A number of men have multiple wives at once in the US. It is illegal, and the second marriage is voidable, or even technically void, but it happened.--Prosfilaes (talk) 10:24, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

text: The first marriage is null and void as he became a US hero.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noob2013 (talk • contribs) 12:38, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The Russian article used as the source for the 1995 Moscow visit itself claims the source as an interview conducting in 1997 with the Hokkiado Shimbun newspaper, by journalist whose name is converted to Cyrillic as "Shinitiro Sakikava". Wikipedia should use the original interview as the source if anyone can find it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.237.234.181 (talk) 12:40, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for Moscow visit 

message: According to https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/viktor-belenko-obituary?id=53291095 Belenko died 24 September 2023.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enzo32ferrari (talk • contribs) 06:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I helped added it. Not sure what is the proper procedure for turning a biographic Wikipedia entry into a deceased individual, but did the best I could. --Inceptor57 (talk) 20:23, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death