Finland delaying answer

Andrei Nekrasov's documentary Distrust about explosions of apartment houses in Moscow in September 1999 will make its debut in Helsinki on 9 May, film producer Olga Konskaya told Caucasian Knot.

Distrust main characters, Timur and Lydia Dakhkilgov, have been invited to the premiere. They were to come to Finland on 12 March, invited by Nekrasov, but Finnish authorities insisted that they should leave the country without any explanation and after a search. Upon arrival to Moscow, the couple at once lodged a complaint with the Finnish embassy and filed another one to a Finnish court of law. Nekrasov applied to the same court with a "protest and demand of apology to the Dakhkilgovs and reimbursement of their costs."

The couple recently obtained new visas, Lydia Dakhkilgov told Caucasian Knot by phone. She said they had not yet received any answers to their complaint and lawsuits. The embassy promised to give the answer as far back as in early April. However, they have since answered by phone that the secretary supposed to give the answer is away.

Nekrasov's film describes how Timur Dakhkilgov was accused of blowing up the houses on Guryanova Street and Kashirskoye Highway; he spent three months in prison, where he says he was subjected to torture.

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