Woman reunited with her son
Published: March 16, 2006
Natalie could not believe that she was reunited with her lost son, Vachaslav, after five months, thousands of miles away from their homeland.
Choking with emotion, the Russian woman struggled to describe her gratitude to the Kerala Police and the Russian Cultural Centre here, which facilitated the reunion. “We will return to this land and its good people,” she said.
It was on October 7 that Vachaslav, a business management student, arrived in Mumbai from Moscow. At Goa, he suffered mental problems and does not remember how he reached Thiruvananthapuram. By that time, he had lost his passport and travel documents.
He was out on the streets for days. A Good Samaritan who found him famished and bedraggled informed the police who registered a case under the Foreigners Registration Act and got him remanded to judicial custody.
Following a suicide attempt in the jail, he was shifted to the mental hospital at Peroorkada. A social worker who realised that Vachaslav was speaking Russian informed the Russian Cultural Centre.
The centre director Ratheesh C. Nair collected Natalie’s address and rang her up in Moscow. She immediately rushed here and after completing the legal formalities, the mother and son boarded a plane for Russia on Friday morning.
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