MOSCOW, December 14 - RAPSI. Russian citizen Anastasiya Zavgorodnyaya, whose children were taken away from her by the Finnish authorities, may join her family at a social aid center as of December 13, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Alexander Lukashevich said on Friday.

"The case has not been recalled from the court, but the trial date has not yet been set," he said. "The social services believe the trial might not be held if the family rehabilitation program is carried out correctly."

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.