{"id":6977,"date":"2010-12-22T19:45:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/?p=6977"},"modified":"2010-12-22T19:45:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T16:45:50","slug":"mamed-khalidov-receives-polish-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2010\/12\/mamed-khalidov-receives-polish-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamed Khalidov Receives Polish Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Polish website <a href=\"http:\/\/sport.onet.pl\/kickboxing-mma\/mistrz-swiata-otrzymal-polskie-obywatelstwo,1,4088614,wiadomosc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Onet.pl<\/a>, world champion in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), 30- year old Chechen, Mamed Khalidov received Polish citizenship on December 21st.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A ceremony was organized for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2009\/07\/veni-vidi-vici\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mamed Khalidov<\/a> in the city of Olsztyn, Poland. He attended with his wife. He received his citizenship from Wojew\u00f3dztwo Warmi\u0144sko-Mazurskie\u2019s (The Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship) head Mariana Podziewskiego.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6979\" title=\"Mamed Khalidov during the ceremony\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mamed_Khalidow_21-12-2010-polish-citizenship-ceremony-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mamed_Khalidow_21-12-2010-polish-citizenship-ceremony-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Mamed_Khalidow_21-12-2010-polish-citizenship-ceremony.jpg 328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/>During the ceremony, the authorities gave him a copy of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and the Polish flag, in addition to citizenship documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I\u2019ve lived in Olsztyn since 1997. I finished my education here; I created a family and also have friends here. I am not going to change it. Olsztyn is a very beautiful city. However, at least now I can fight for the Polish national team,&#8221; said Khalidov after the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>*Text was translated by Waynakh Online and edited by Michael Capobianco<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Polish website Onet.pl, world champion in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), 30- year old Chechen, Mamed Khalidov received Polish citizenship on December 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[532,1586],"class_list":["post-6977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mamed-khalidov","tag-mariana-podziewskiego"],"views":4917,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}