{"id":4590,"date":"2026-04-08T06:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/4590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:08:11","slug":"russia-to-carefully-consider-request-for-asylum-for-maduro-if-petitioned-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/4590\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to Carefully Consider Request for Asylum for Maduro If Petitioned: Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1273382\/russia-to-carefully-consider-request-for-asylum-maduro-if-petitioned-ambassador\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n01273382-b.jpg\" alt=\"Russia to Carefully Consider Request for Asylum for Maduro If Petitioned: Ambassador\" title=\"Russia to Carefully Consider Request for Asylum for Maduro If Petitioned: Ambassador\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Moscow would carefully consider a request to grant asylum to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, should one be received, Russian Ambassador to Caracas Sergey Melik\u00b7Bagdasarov said.&#8221;No requests to grant asylum to Maduro have been received, at least not through us. If such a request were to be received, I think it would be carefully considered by the Russian side,&#8221; the diplomat told TASS in an interview, responding to a question about whether Russia would be prepared to grant Maduro asylum if the US were to release him from detention.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the firmness of Russia\u2019s position: &#8220;President Maduro and his wife, who were seized by Washington as a result of armed aggression in violation of international law and common sense, must be released.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On January 3, the US launched strikes on civilian and military targets in Venezuela, kidnapped the country\u2019s president and his wife, and transported them out of the country. US forces have since faced legal action in American courts, where Maduro and his wife have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who served as executive vice president under Maduro, is currently acting as head of state in Venezuela.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Moscow would carefully consider a request to grant asylum to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, should&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,2664,3258,3268,3270,3255,3256,2673,3263,3260,2374,3259,3271,26,3265,3267,3261,624,3269,3257,5,2376,3272,2379,3266,2375,2665,3264,3262],"class_list":{"0":"post-4590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-ambassador","10":"tag-asylum","11":"tag-be","12":"tag-caracas","13":"tag-carefully","14":"tag-consider","15":"tag-for","16":"tag-grant","17":"tag-if","18":"tag-islam","19":"tag-maduro","20":"tag-melikbagdasarov","21":"tag-moscow","22":"tag-nicolas","23":"tag-one","24":"tag-petitioned","25":"tag-president","26":"tag-received","27":"tag-request","28":"tag-russia","29":"tag-russian","30":"tag-said","31":"tag-sergey","32":"tag-should","33":"tag-times","34":"tag-to","35":"tag-venezuelan","36":"tag-would"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}