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Russian mother denied custody of son by Finnish court

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A Finnish court has announced its decision to deny temporary custody to Russian national Rimma Salonen of her seven-year-old son, her official representative said on Monday.

A Finnish court has announced its decision to deny temporary custody to Russian national Rimma Salonen of her seven-year-old son, her official representative said on Monday.

Anton has been at the center of a Russian-Finnish child custody dispute after his parents divorced and his mother took him back to Russia. In 2009, his Finnish father Paavo Salonen illegally took him from Russia to Finland with the help of a Finnish diplomat.

The child's father was charged in Russia in 2009 for illegally taking Anton, who has Finnish-Russian citizenship, to Finland. His mother was given an 18-month suspended sentence in Finland for illegally taking Anton to Russia in 2008.

Custody rights were granted to the boy's Finnish father. The court allowed the Russian mother to see her son only twice a month in the presence of police and social workers.

Rimma has requested the court to grant her temporary custody of the child fearing that Anton could be taken to Norway where he could be adopted by her ex-husband's elder brother.

"The court has taken the position of Paavo Salonen at 100% and rejected Rimma's request," her official representative in Finland, Johan Beckman, said, adding that the court's ruling cannot be appealed.

"By its decision, the court fully denies criminal proceedings [in Russia] against Paavo Salonen, Anton's Russian citizenship and stresses that the boy must not speak Russian," he said.

Beckman said the ruling was politically motivated and violated the rights of both Rimma and her son.

ST. PETERSBURG, January 10 (RIA Novosti) 

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