High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Rantala is a 7-year-old child with Russian-Finnish dual citizenship who was taken by the Finnish social service to a children's shelter in early 2010. Russian media followed closely the incident for weeks. The boy escaped from school to his parents and Russia's Commissioner for Children Pavel Astakhov visited in Finland. Robert Rantala is a son of the Russian mother Inga Rantala and Finnish father Veli-Pekka Rantala. The Family lives in Turku, Finland. The boy was taken into child custody on 4 February 2010. Robert attended to school but escaped to his family. Russia's Commissioner for Children Pavel Astakhov met Finnish social workers in Finland on 18 March. The result of his efforts was the boy will stay with his family, but Finnish social workers will make regular visits, which solved the issue for both sides.