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The court statements of Larisa Frolova
Written by Лариса Фролова   
Понедельник, 20 Январь 2003
I had a double loss, a double grief: my 34 year-old son, Yevgeny, and his wife, Vera. She was an orphan. They wanted to go to 'Nord-Ost', in order to take a break from their cares. At 10 PM on the 23rd I found out what had happened on TV. We spent the 24th through 26th with the grandkids. The youngest I took to kindergarten, but the oldest we let let go to school just once. I accidentally blurted out to one of the parents what had happened, and the next day the oldest grandson asked me if it was true that his mother and father were hostages of the Chechens. This whole time I hid from the grandkids what had happened. At first I lied to them, I said that someone had broken a window out at the cabin, and that their mother and father had gone there the fix it. Later I said that their car had broken down, and that were getting it fixed. The oldest one advised me to call them on the mobile phone. I told him that its battery was dead.

We never lost hope the whole time they were hostages. When the Chechens pushed their demands, I hoped that they would be satisfied. We tought that people were more important to the government.

I hoped that they would pull the troops out of Chechnya. Or at least pretend to, but after the president's speech it was clear that there was nothing that could be done. After this there was news that the Chechens were going to shoot 10 hostages every hour. We changed channels, watched every station, but then they announced the storming of the theater.

I prayed for a happy ending. Because there were small children at home, I had to hold myself together. On the 27th we found out about the death of Yevgeny and Vera. A neighbor took the kids to a rest home for two days.

On October 26th friends of Vera and Yevgeny looked for them. They weren't on on the lists. On October 27th the Frolovs did not on appear on the certified list of 700 hostages. But hope dies last.

On the hospital certificate, it was written that both died of cardiac insufficiency and cerebral hemorrhage. They were under the gas for a minimum of 2 to 2 1/2 hours. If they had been laying on the sidewalk afterwards for a long time, then that could also have decreased their chances. They were wearing only thin t-shirts. Friends told me later that they had given their sweaters to some schoolchildren among the hostages.

I believe that my children died from the poor organization of the rescue operation. This lawsuit is against the Moscow city and the Russian federal governments.

I am 53, and my husband is 55. Now we have two small children. We already raised three sons to be defenders of the fatherland. Our whole life we worked, and what did we get? Grief, pain, and tears. We swore before the coffins of our children that we would raise our grandchildren to be upstanding and useful people.

As far as material and moral damages, before all of this I never suffered from insomnia, but now I can't fall asleep until 3 or 4 in the morning. I have to get up at 7 to send the children to school. I suffer from angina, and my husband now has high blood pressure.

The children need money. The oldest is in private school, and the youngest has dental problems. For 3 years Yevgeny was building a house, and literally a month before the tragedy all was finished, but all his savings were gone. A pension was fixed for the two at 7500 rubels ($300) a month. Altogether our expenses are 11–12 thousand rubles ($440 to $480) a month. For now we get by, but when the boys are 15 to 17, it will be hard to feed them. I demand compensation for the material means which they were deprived through the loss of their parents.

Yevgeny's brother Andrey has had heart problems since he went to identify the bodies. Andrey said that it was very difficult to recognize his brother — Yevgeny's neck had swollen wider than his head. Andrey and Yevgeny were only 3 years apart, and very close. Yevgeny and Vera were found on the evening of the 27th, almost two days after their deaths. All this time Vera had in her pocket her passport with their adress. I have the impression that the authorities tried to hide Vera's death.

I believe that my children were killed in a war, and demand that the government assign life-long benefits and allowances. My grandchildren cannot receive from me all that they could have from their parents.
 
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