Helsinki court rules children be returned to their mother in Russia

PETROZAVODSK, March 11 (Itar-Tass) – A Finnish court has ruled in favor of a Russian mother whose two six-year old children went to see their father in Finland on a tourist visa in November but did not come back. The second instance court of Helsinki ruled on Monday that the children of Svetlana Karelina, a resident of Petrozavodsk, and of Sergei Timonen, her ex-husband, now residing in Yoensuu, Finland, must be returned to Russia, Karelina’s Finnish lawyer Jyrki Leivonen told Itar-Tass.

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