Russian Foreign Ministry official Victor Tatarintsev will discuss with the Finnish authorities legal mechanisms for children of mixed marriages, a spokesman said on Monday.
"We are discussing with Finnish authorities how to resolve such problems and find equitable solutions that will meet interests of children from mixed marriages," Andrei Nestrenko said, adding that Tatarintsev will visit Helsinki on June 9.
A diplomatic row on the issue arose in 2009 when Finish national Paavo Salonen was charged for illegally taking his 5-year-old son Anton from Russia to Finland with the help of a Finnish diplomat, who drove through the Russian-Finnish border with the boy in the trunk of his vehicle.
The boy's Russian mother, Rimma Salonen, was given an 18-month suspended sentence last October in Finland for illegally taking Anton to Russia in 2008.
More recently, a similar legal case emerged involving the deportation of an elderly, disabled Russian woman from Finland, despite the serious risks the journey may pose to her health. The woman's daughter, who has Finish nationality, brought her mother to Finland on a tourist visa in 2008, after the old lady had a stroke.
MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti)
