Tanya Morozova-White	Protagonists in order of appearance Tanya (Tatyana) Morozova-White Tanya:They say "Chechens" to spread, expand our pain, as it were, instead of focusing on the specifics, on the task of finding the culprits. Akhmed Zakaev: I understand a person who carries that pain inside, and the need for answers. We are all children of God, even if we believe in different ways... Please do not blame us Chechens!
Sasha White	Sasha White, Tanya’s son Tanya: He does not even know about it, but he has Russian history in his blood. And that is a connection to the history of Russia. The way we, my sister and I will present it to him, Russia’s past, our mother’s past - will probably have an impact on his whole future life. He may love Russia, or he may hate it… Of couse, I don’t want him to hate it…
Yelena Morozova	Yelena (Alyona) Morozova, her sister Tanya: Alyona went through so much, she saw so much. You can’t just kick it out of your head. That’s why she can’t sleep or sees these nightmares. I think until her last day she will see them Alyona:There aren't many people trying to find out the truth. Those who suffered, like me, who were injured and lost limbs and so on... They just want to forget about it: the sooner the better. Alyona:I long for the perpetrators to be caught, I really do. We're not just puppets for playing war games with... It's not on simply to say:"Some people died, too bad, we'll put up a new building."We all have feelings. Well, obviously some don't...
Lubov Morozova	Lubov Morozova, their mother † Alyona: I could suddenly see through the wall, there was just an empty space, and I knew that that's where my mother should have been. Tanya: I have not seen her sick, I have not seen her sad. I feel like she is still alive. It’s just a hard thing - you miss her, and you can’t talk to her.
Abraham White	Abraham White, Tanya’s husband, a restaurant chef in Milwaukee, Wis. Tanya: I lost my mom and with her I lost my Russia. So as hard as I could I started to build a new home, and now I have my husband, I have Sasha, and, well, that’s enough for me. If I have a little Russia it is right here, in my heart, and if somebody will want to take this last bit away, they will have to take it right from my heart, with my life.
Jeff L. Kinney	Jeff L. Kinney, CNN videographer and producer who helped Alyona after the bombing Tanya: Jeff went on the Internet to find our adress and our phone number. He called me and said, Alyona is with some friends, call her on this number; I said, what is this, a joke? No, he said, it’s not a joke, it’s an emergency. Jeff: The way the Americans view Chechens changed on Sept.11th. On Sept.10th Americans thought that these were poor people abused by the Russians; on the Sept.12th Chechens became Muslim terrorists DEALT WITH ACCORDINGLY BY the Russians for the safety of the rest of the world.
Svetlana Rozhkova	Svetlana (Sveta) Rozhkova, Tanya’s friend and former neighbor, who lost her parents in the attack. Nobody can give us our parents back. I've tried to subdue these feelings. What can we do? We have to carry on living in this country. Finding out the truth won't make it less hard. Sometimes I'm afraid. And sometimes I get really annoyed because we weren't more on the ball, somehow. But I have to carry on living here. You have to get on with your parents whatever they're like. And it's the same with your country: it's the only one you've got. I'm talking about these things now because it really hurts. And maybe I'm afraid of finding out the truth, because the truth might be even worse than what's happened...
Michail Trepashkin	Michail Trepashkin, Tanya’s and Alyona’s lawyer in Moscow who was arrested after finding evidence of FSB’s involvement in the bombing Michail Trepashkin : The KGB had a huge political section, yes. And it's interesting to note that the people who now occupy the top positions in the FSB are the same ones who used to be responsible for political prosecutions: ex-members of the KGB's notorious Section 5. According to the article 7 of the Secrecy law crimes resulting in large numbers of deaths cannot be kept secret. What would happen if the results of the investigation were made public? It's simple: all those involved in these crimes would be arrested. The question is: Who would that hurt? Tahya: Are you not afraid? By persisting in your investigations you are putting your own life on the line! Michail: Well, what can I say... I have a cause and I believe it is just. Even my own former colleagues from the FSB will testify that I’ve never deceived or betrayed anyone. So I am in peace with myself.
David Satter	David Satter, scholar,former Moscow correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and New York Times who wrote a book arguing that the bombing was staged by the Russian secret service, the FSB. Some people say I haven’t proven it, I can’t prove it. Well, I say, this is a little bit of a perversion of the venerable Anglo-Saxon doctrine of presumption of innocence. Presumption of innocence is intended to protect the individual against the government. It doesn’t apply to a government which is suspected of a mass crime against its own population.
Timur Dakhkilgov	Timur Dakhkilgov, a Muscovite from Chechnya who confessed to the bombing under torture but was released when the case fell apart. Lidia: I wanted to go out onto the streets and cry out: "He's innocent!" I can swear on the health of my children, on the most sacred things!" Lidia: Timur doesn't like talking about these things. He doesn't even want to remember. Timur: I did my army service at Baiconur cosmodrome, did special training... But I've never heard the word "hexogen" in my life... Timur: sometimes I think, what if they hadn't been proven wrong? I would have been locked up for life. Simple as that.
Lidia Dakhkilgov	Lidia Dakhkilgov, Timur’s wife Lidia: It all started with fingerprints, we had to submit them - because we were born in Grozny. They said: "fingerprints are taken in the whole civilized world." "Maybe," I said, "but is it done only to people with certain kinds of facial features, as a kind of face control? What's wrong with his face or mine?" Then the lawyer told me: "He's about to make a confession." But how can that be if your conscience is clear? The lawyer said:"They have their methods." I then found out how they were pressuring him: I was pregnant at the time with our third boy. So they told him they'd take me and our kids to Gurianov Street, to that crowd, those people whose families were killed, and tell them, "Here's the wife of the man who blew up the building." And Timur would have to sit in a car and watch the crowd deal with me.
Alexandra Mingaleva	Alexandra Mingaleva, Tanya’s grandmother who lives in a village in the Urals, Russia May she rest in peace. And be eternally remembered. May Lubov, God's child, rest in peace! Let's drink to her memory!
Vladimir Mingalev	Vladimir Mingalev, Tanya’s grand-father How did our Luba get from the Urals to Moscow? She was a hairdresser. She found out that there was a special hairdressing college in Moscow. And she wrote them a letter. And they offered her a place, and so she went to Moscow. And that brought Moscow closer to us. And now it's far away again, and we no longer have anybody there.
Sergei Mingalev	Sergei Mingalev, Tanya’s uncle And as for the people involved, had they been ordinary people, Chechens, they would've been caught straight away. But there are bigger fish involved, that's why it's taking so long. Until none of the powers-that-be die, or... this one... doesn't get kicked out... nothing will happen.
Alyona Kozhevnikova	Alyona Kozhevnikova, a friend of Tanya’s late mother (the White Russian) I don’t believe it was the FSB that organized the 1999 bombings. Nor I believe that the Chechens are innocent victims. PEACE IN THE CAUCASUS HAS ALWAYS BEEN MAINTAINED BY THE RUSSIAN BAYONETS. I don’t believe those claims are substantiated. If the Russian army hadn’t been there they would have been still cutting each other’s throats.
Akhmed Zakaev	Akhmed Zakaev, the deputy prime-minister of Chechnya in 1999 (now in exile) Sergei Ivanov, Defence Minister: …The terrorist must be caught and tried Alyona: My main thought then was: give me the person responsible, and let me kill him with my own bare hands! Akhmed Zakaev: Even if some Chechens who lost their families during the first war were prepared to do something like that, they would have chosen a totally different target for their revenge, a legitimate one of sorts. The FSB headquarters, the Interior Ministry or the General Staff... I am certain the Russian public wouldn't have condemned all of the Chechen people so unanimously. There would have even been split in people’s reaction. But the secret service was counting precisely on the indignation of ordinary people who would demand: "Punish the Chechens!" That's why those buildings were chosen. When the troops were sent into Chechnya, Russian society had to be made look elsewhere When Grozny was being showered with 5-ton bombs, when women and children were being blown up, the Russians were kept busy by alarms and overnight vigils and were only concerned with a possible bomb in the basement and not with the fate of mortals like themselves who were being massacred somewhere down in the south...
	In the episodes
Yuri Luzhkov	Yuri Luzhkov, the Mayor of Moscow We've got an uprising on our hands!
Sergei Shoigu	Sergei Shoigu, the Minister for Emergencies This is just an ordinary routine job.
Nikolai Patrushev	Nikolai Patrushev, the Director of the FSB That wasn't an explosion, first of all. Secondly, it wasn't prevented. Well, our people weren't quite spot on... It was an exercise. And there was sugar in the sacks, not explosives.
Sergei Kirienko	Sergei Kirienko, the Prime Minister in 1998 The State admits that it is unable to pay its debts.
Boris Yeltsin	Boris Yeltsin, the President of Russia until Dec. 1999 I am not going! I am not resigning!
Evgeni Primakov	Evgeni Primakov, the Prime Minister in 1998 Harsh measures are required, and these will be implemented.
Yuri Skuratov	Yuri Skuratov, Prosecutor General in 1998 Don’t expect the fight against corruption to be selective!
Vladimir Putin	Vladimir Putin, Director of the FSB in 1998, the Prime Minister in 1999, currently the President of Russia. Where are these casualties? That's all the propaganda of bandits and terrorists. There are only a few isolated cases. And besides, some died not from shelling, but rather from, well, hard conditions or that sort of thing...
Vladimir Rushailo	Vladimir Rushailo, the Minister of Interior in 1999 The evidence of an improvement in our work is the prevention of the explosion at a building in Ryazan.
Alexander Zdanovich	Alexander Zdanovich, head of PR Center of the FSB in 1999, currently deputy chairman of RTR Russian State TV network During exercises we use all our available means and forces... Don't smile like that. You've asked a question, listen to the answer! So... I was saying that we use secret agents and we never show them.