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Thanks, I wonder where I can find that?

OTOH, it might be better that I didn't - when I translated a BBC documentary for some 'Nord-Ost' people, they were yelling at ME for what the narrator was supposedly getting wrong.

After this many years, memories are set in concrete, whether they happened or not.

Had my faith been stronger, maybe I could have been able to offer some real help.

It was annoying to see the Scientologists and Moonies make a bee-line for Osetia, after Beslan. Quite a few of the 'Beslan Mothers' have been scammed by a 'healer' who promises to raise their children from the dead, if they have enough faith.

Evil never rests :-(

Here's something I found in an interview on radio 'Echo of Moscow, May 5th, 2005 (Russian text) (English text):

(Russian version of Rush Limbaugh) M. GANAPOLSKY: I'll now demonstrate for you an example of irresponsibility. Helen writes, "Matvei Yurievich, your guests blame their misfortune on everyone except the Chechen terrorists. What are they doing, justifying their (the terrorist's) actions?" Helen, get away from your radio, you are surely listening to a different broadcast. No, you don't even have to answer this question, because they don't know what they're talking about.

S.GUBAREVA: No, I'll answer. That fact that the Chechens are guilty, this is unambiguous, this is not subject to doubt, because had it not been for them, nothing else would've happened. But we are talking about something else, about how the authorities acted.

P. FINOGENOV: And about how the investigation was conducted.

(SNIP)

(Radio caller) YEKATERINA: I also voted 'for', that it's necessary to investigate further. But I have the only question, which those present didn't answer, your question about what they are trying to get?

M. GANAPOLSKY: What do you think?

YEKATERINA: Follow my, perhaps, not entirely correct logic, that even if the courts recognize and find the guilty, the most they can do is award damages. Is this not so?

M. GANAPOLSKY: If they find the guilty, then these people will be named, right?

YEKATERINA: Will they feel better if this happens?

M. GANAPOLSKY: We will now find that out. Do you want money, punishment, or what?

S.GUBAREVA: More than anything, the punishment of the guilty.

P. FINOGENOV: Our struggle goes on within the framework of a criminal case, and our demands correspond 100% with criminal evidence. That is, the demand that they determine the course of events, what happened there, and to establish who the real culprits are, within the framework of the criminal case. None of us has filed a civil claim thus far.

M. GANAPOLSKY: You're a bit embarrassed to speak about this, and this shows, but I'd like to remind our radio listeners. Yes, they'll have to give money. Svetlana, do you have any other children?

S.GUBAREVA: No.

M. GANAPOLSKY: What will Svetlana do when she is old? Who will get her a glass of water when she's 80? Who? This is the Soviet in us.

S.GUBAREVA: I don't think that I'll make it to 80 with this pain.

P. FINOGENOV: The main objective, which we are now trying to attain, is to determine the specific events that happened during 'Nord-Ost', and which preceded 'Nord-Ost', and to find out the organizers and perpetrators of the crime. Our complaints consist specifically of these demands.

This is the last time I volunteer to play ventriloquist:

"Sovsem zabyla - v fil'me 'Terror v Moskve est' kadry, na kotorykh vidno, kak moyu Sahsu vynosyat iz teatra. Ehto v posledney chasti - snachala viden chelovek so shpritsem v rukakh, a potom spetsnazovets neset na rukakh devochu v svitere i blyukakh (sviter zapominayushchiysya - u net svet menyaetsya ot bledno-sirenevogo sverkhu do temno-sirenevogo vnizu). U devochki obe uki svobodno boltayutsya s odnoy storony. Ehto Sasha.

"A fil'm est' i u menya, i u Lyuby. Ya znakoma i s Denom Ridom (on i prodyusser ehtogo fil'ma, i rezhisser, i stsenarist tozhe), i s dvumya drugimi prodyusserami."

Which translates to:

"I entirely forgot - in the film the 'Terror in Moscow' there are some frames in which you can see them carrying my Sasha from the theater. This in the last part - a man with a syringe in his hands is at first visible, and then a special forces soldier carries in his arms a girl in sweater and trousers (the sweater changes color from the pale-lilac on top to dark-lilac below). Both the girl's hands dangle freely to one side. This is Sasha.

"I have the film, and so does Lyuba. I know Dan Reed (he's the producer of this film, and the director, and the scenarist as well) and two other producers. "