ST.-PETERSBURG, August 30 - RAPSI. On Wednesday, a Finnish court imposed a 120 Euro fine on a man who offered to kill Russian national Rimma Salonen for 10,000 Euros on a news website, Salonen's representative Johan Baeckman told RIA Novosti.

Salonen has lost several trials contesting the Finish authorities' decision to make 70-year-old father of her son Anton his sole guardian. Anton has both Russian and Finish citizenship. In June, the Vaasa Appeals Court rejected Rimma Salonen's request for parental custody of her son. According to Baeckman, her former husband insists on Anton having no contact with his mother, despite the right granted to her to see him once a week.

Baeckman said that after the scandal over her son last May, various comments, including insults and threats, were posted on a Finnish newspaper's website. An offer to kill Rimma for 10,000 Euros was among them. Several criminal cases were initiated in connection with these threats, though all but this one were closed before reaching the courts.

Baeckman added that the man was also ordered to pay 200 Euros in moral damages and 2,000 Euros in legal fees compensation.
The judgment may be contested, and 200 Euros for a threat of this kind is a joke, although the fact that the law enforcement authorities sided with Salonen is a good sign, said Baeckman.

Salonen's case was one of the first public scandals to break out over Russian-Finnish children.

Rimma Salonen brought her son Anton back to Russia, after which he was taken back to Finland in the trunk of a diplomat's car three years ago by his father Paavo Salonen and diplomat Simo Pietilainen, who have escaped criminal liability in Finland. Salonen was deprived of her parental rights by a Finnish court and received a suspended sentence for abducting her son after her divorce with Paavo. The Russian Foreign Ministry and Children's Rights Commissioner Pavel Astakhov spared no effort to help Salonen or her son, whose Russian citizenship has not been recognized by Finish authorities.

Paavo Salonen has taken Russia and Astakhov to the European Court of Human Rights to force them to stop commenting on the Anton's case.

Anton is currently living in Finland with his 70-year old father, who is his sole guardian.