Elise André incident

The Elise André incident is a tug-of-war of kidnappings of the three-year-old girl Elise André-Belenkaya (Элиза Андре Беленькая) in a dispute between her parents, father Jean-Michel André and mother Ирина Беленькая, over child custody during 2007–2009. The girl was abducted and moved across the border at least three times since parents' divorce in 2007.

The last kidnapping (by mother) was stopped in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary in April 2009 and in May the Hungarian court decided that the mother be extradited to France

In 2009 there were about 50 child custody disputes between Russia and France aggravated by the fact that Russia is not a signatory of the 1980 Hague convention on civil aspects of child abduction.

Both parents were granted custody rights from their own countries.

In 2012 the mother was facing a three-year suspended sentence from a French court in Tarascon for double abduction, in November 2007 and in March 2009. Mother's lawyer asked for a suspended sentence. Eventually she received two years of sentence suspended for five years. The Russian Ministry of Foreign affairs concluded that the decision of the French court had been balanced.