ST. PETERSBURG, November 27 - RAPSI. Russian citizen Anastasia Zavgorodnyaya claims that Finnish social services are determined to deprive her and her husband of their parental rights, and that this time they are attempting to do so through the court.

She said that the service filed a lawsuit with an administrative court. The social workers said they want to take the children out of the home because they suspect the father of violence against the children and accuse the mother of suspiciousness with the officials.

Zavgorodnyaya said the prospects for a lawsuit are quite discouraging because the Finnish courts typically side with the social services.

The Finnish social services took four children from Russian citizen Anastasia Zavgorodnyaya who was living in Vantaa, Finland, on suspicion of child abuse in early October.

This event caused a public outcry.

The Russian Foreign Ministry and Children's Rights Commissioner, Pavel Astakhov, became involved in the case. Later the woman was allowed to live with her children at an orphanage, and then she was released under the supervision of social workers.

On November 15, in a second incident, social services took Zavgorodnyaya's children again while she kept them at a friend's.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Finnish social services acted the second time because of Zavgorodnyaya's alleged lack of compliance with a rehabilitation program.