 Today is the program special, in a way the informational bomb. It is called the man and the law with Alex Epimanov. Right before the May holidays the blasts exploded in Ukraine, so they got in there too. I have already said that and will never fail to repeat. No fight with terrorism will eradicate the evil until 20-30 world leaders get together and find the answer to a seemingly trivial question. Who is exploding these bombs and why? Leaders go off daily in many different countries, regardless of religions and until the answer is found as to who is financing these, through which bank and which special services are behind them, all these terrorist organizations will continue to play a big game of geopolitics, trying to restrict each other's zone of influence. Believe me, leaders are quite capable of dealing with it together and so to say, slamming their fists on the table. But they are not going to do that. The major question is why? Before Ukraine there was Belarus, 15 people ducked in the metro, hundreds were wounded, there was the quick arrest of the criminals, investigation, trial and death panels. Let's note, all this was done under the laws of Belarus, sovereign and independent state. I was astonished by another fact in the story. The flowers that many people deposited at the embassy of Belarus in Moscow after the execution of the terrorists. Do these people not think at this moment that if they executed, in fact, burned the metro and killed people, the flowers were blasphemy in the highest degree? I understand that these people fell victims of informational war, but one should use one's own head after all. At that time, we decided to approach the Belarus authorities and request all materials of this high-profile case. The good information seems for the first time. Watch and make a round conclusions. 11th of April 2011. The time is 1755. There is a usual stampede at the Minsk metro station. It's rush hour. Some people are going home from their walk where relatives and loved ones are waiting. Some are hiring to pick up their children from kindergarten. And some are looking forward to their first date. October sky blast on platform 2. Too much smoke, we can't get out. See, these guys without legs. So young. Awful. Get down to the station. Do you read me? Over. There are seven more people lying in metro. Alive. We need more ambulances here. Olya, leave. Go for the children. Do you hear me? Girl, give me something for the heart attack. Here is a girl lying with her legs turned off. You should tell the government to do something about it. 15 dead. More than 200 wounded. Small Belarus froze in fear and terror. Who did this? Why? Law enforcement offices, combed streets and public places detained suspicious looking people. Every inch of October sky station was examined. Experts scrutinized every fragment of CCTV camera footage. The effort brought results. Closer to the morning, the specialists pay attention to this seemingly unnoticeable figure. And less than two days after, the Minsk met a tragedy. The whole world knew the names of the terrorists, Dmitry Kanovalov and Vladislav Kovalev. No, the suspects in this act were not members of criminal gang and underground organization. They were common Belarusians aged 25, a factory worker and an electrician. They confessed as soon as they were questioned. They were arrested so quickly. They were so young that nobody believed they could have done this at all. Even their appearance, so different from images of cruel terrorists, generated many questions about whether or not they could really be guilty. Some people even thought that some of their evidence had been falsified. The media caused the story exhaustively. The principal defender, which is understandable, was the mother of them, Vladislav Kovalev. He was arrested so quickly. They were arrested so quickly. They were so young that nobody believed the mother of them, Vlad Kovalev. An investigation? There is no evidence of my son's guilt. Against my son, there is no evidence at all. But there is no evidence even against Kanovalov. Understand? However, the court took the final decision, guilty, the sanctioned death penalty. The sentence was executed in March 2012. The execution generated much media allegation that the people shot were in fact innocent. We decided to look into this high-profile case and determine who in fact set off the bomb in the Minsk metro. And whether those who were guilty were the ones who were actually executed. Having noticed the suspicion posted on the video taken by metro cameras, a walking young man, the expert decided to trace his movement in the metro that day. The cameras caught him at 17.39 at Fruzynskaya Station. It is him entering the metro with a black bag in his hand, coming down the escalator, walking along the platform and entering the train. In three minutes the train arrives at Kupalovskaya Station. The man gets off of the train and walks through the passenger of Oktyabrskaya Station. The bag is heavy, so he stops, exhales and moves on. And here he has reached his destination. Oktyabrskaya is the only Minsk metro station to have a transfer hub. There are always many people here, even now at 11 at night. On the day of the tragedy, there were about 300 people there. Even in the large crowd, you can't help but notice a young man with a spot back in his hands. That is him coming down to the platform. He stops by the second column, walks further on, then leaves his back between fifth and sixth column and goes back to the passage. You can see him empty-handed. Now the countdown starts. The young man looks at the platform once more and pushes the button. One gets a sense of how powerful the blast was by absorbing the carriage closest to the explosion. We were at the first reporters to film the carriage. That is what was left of the metal carriage. What can be said about people sitting there. It wasn't just screws, nut, balls, nails and metal balls, which were later recovered from bodies of the dead and injured. There was something else. These scattered fragments were like this. These are splinters of marble. While doctors were fighting for the lives of the injured, police officers found colored pictures of the suspect caught by CCTV cameras at the metro exit. That's him on the square, moments after the blast. We are given to believe that about 7000 copies of this photograph were printed in several hours. All of them were distributed to law enforcement offices. This picture played a major role in the disclosure of the loud case. While the search for the perpetrator was actively in progress, the alleged offender was drinking vodka in the company of friends, former classmates and a girl he had recently met on social network. It was later established that he didn't miss a single special news report on television that night. And apparently he was in a high spirits. That is something a single witness who spent three days in a flat with him, including the day of blast, stated that it was an exclusive fragment. So a little more than a day had passed since the terrorist attack. The group of youngsters had spent their time drinking heavily. By the evening of 12th of April there was no liquor left. The girl demanded to continue the party and declared, I want oranges. The young men decided to play gentlemen and they both went to a shop. Unexpectedly, a police officer who had a copy of the terrorist photograph recognized him. The officer tailed the couple and reported the suspect's location to his colleagues. Look the camera! Look the camera! What's your name? I am called Ivan Kovalev. What's your name? Ivan Kovalev. Vlad Kovalev. What's your name? Your friend. Your friend? What's his name? Well. What's your name? My name is Dima. Looks like a name. Look, it's not bad. It's not bad. Looks like a name. What? Well, it's like a name. They are very drunk. They are very drunk. The canavallas are in the wild. Pay attention to the clothes on the detainees. Have a look at the clothes of the suspect. Kanavallov has the same jacket and head, which are depicted on the photograph of the presumed terrorist, which was distributed to police offices. Even the picture on the head is clearly seen. The operational video of this detention was shown on Russian TV for the first time. Here is one of the most impressive moments. Is this really the young man who brought such sorrow and distress to hundreds of homes? The presumed terrorists were so heavily drunk, as clearly seen on the video, that they were not able to answer questions from investigators until the next morning. A little later, when he had recovered a little, Dmitry Kanovalov started talking. In the next room, I ask other participants of the drinking party, Vlad Kovalev and Yana Pachitskaya, where interrogated in the next office. Although the girl had no idea what her drinking companions had to do with the blast in the metro, the boy seemed well aware. Moreover, he admitted that he assisted his friend in preparing the terrorist attack. Kovalev immediately stated that his friend Kanovalov had set off bombs not only in the metro, but also during the 2008 Independence Day celebration in Minsk, where 59 people were injured. Moreover, he was allegedly responsible for the 2005 Vitibsk bombing, which resulted in dozens of casualties. Investigators immediately started to verify each word added by the suspects. We should clearly understand that in cases of such serious crime, it is simply not possible to believe at face value a statement made by Kovalev for Kanovalov claiming responsibility. It was me. For the in-hour program, you'll see how Dmitry Kanovalov had been preparing for the terrorist attack and the kind of components he used to make the metro bomb. Suutkii period just today before the tragedy. What were the young men doing hours before the blast? Here are unique recordings of the investigative experiment in the Minsk metro. The examination of evidence given by Dmitry Kanovalov and Vlad Kovalev, the presumed Minsk metro terrorists, began in their hometown of Vitibsk. Dmitry Kanovalov and Vlad Kovalev grew up in DSK, an industrial state situated in suburbs of Vitibsk. They lived close to each other, one in house 6, the other in house 8. They started together, chatted, played truant and took an interest in pyrotechnics. According to investigators, as the boy got older, they started experimenting in the building of bombs and also in getting them to explode. Of course, we wanted to learn what the parents of the major suspect, Dmitry Kanovalov, thought about the case and went directly to their place. No one? No, Nambari Asus. But as we managed to establish, Dmitry's mother and father are not available for the media. In fact, they allegedly asked law enforcement agencies to protect them. Police officers are constantly present close to the house. That is to avoid meeting people who don't fully understand the situation related to the blasts and the involvement of the persons. At the same time, during investigations, Kanovalov's parents cooperated with authorities and shared stories about how difficult it was bringing up their son. He had not talked to his father for years. They recall different minor details that were meaningful for the investigation. For instance? For instance, Kanovalov's attempted suicides. Let's move forward in time a little. Kanovalov's parents even didn't attend their son's court verdict announcement. I think they felt remorse and guilt for what their son has done. At some point, Dmitry Kanovalov distanced himself from friends and relatives. A huge loneliness could have become the reason for his revenge on the world, for his own failure and uselessness. Who knows? Kanovalov came from a dysfunctional, modest income family. Also, the neighborhood where he lived was not a wealthy one. So the only moment where he found inspiration, not even inspiration, but the only activity which seemed to motivate him was chemistry, pirate actings. Investigators no doubt examined the psychological portrait of Dmitry Kanovalov They got an image of him being an aggressive, egocentric young man. Ego is the center of the universe. Anything else? Yes, a mediocre crowd was not worth recognizing. Perhaps this partially explains his blood thirstiness. He developed his personality. It didn't just appear from nowhere. You can trace it by the kind of explosives he created. They grew from weak to very powerful over time. Kanovalov and his friend Vlad Kovalev were interested in making firecrackers when they were 13. That is what their classmate Sergei Romanov told us. It's peculiar that his interview was recorded in the flat of Vlad Kovalev's mother, who invited former classmates to defend her son. Well, there were different interests. What exactly? Sergei told her instead of me, I'm afraid to say it to her. What about it? Say as it is. What are you afraid of? Why should we be afraid? It's in the VTPS bombing's criminal file. Common interests I'd stake here. According to Romanov, it was Dima Kanovalov, who always slid up firecrackers, while he and Vlad Kovalev only ever watched. The device consisted of a long flask with a little magnesium. And there was a fuse. The fuse would burn and Dima could also cut it and estimate the time of explosion. Well, he did that and we knew it would blow up within four minutes. His friends confirmed that pyrotechnics became Dmitry's major passion for it, since there was no place for anything else in his life. Add to this his family problems and perhaps some inner complexes. Even as a senior student, Kanovalov tried to silence it with alcohol. I miss you, my darling. But it seems that didn't help much, although another childhood friend, called Sergei Baranok, told that he didn't believe in some hidden hatred that meeting, which was Kanovalov's neighborhood nickname, felt towards mankind. He would have shown it somehow anyway before. Aggression? Yes, something he had inside. For instance, when he made some explosive, he never put it in somebody's pocket. Investigators established that already at the age of 19 he started making a very powerful bomb and shared his fire-riching plans with Vlad. That is what Vlad indicated during the investigation. Kovalev appreciated Kanovalov's trust and purely away. No, he didn't lock up his friend in the storeroom until he changed his mind. He didn't smack him to knock foolish ideas out of his head. On the contrary, Vlad offered him help and admitted to having some trouble. Soldier Zheldov stole TNT in 2002 during his military service. He stole a large 400-gram TNT grenade and two smaller 75-gram ones. He stole the grenades at home. In 2005, he sold them to a miner called Kuzinok. Within a couple of days, Kuzinok had sold the TNT grenades to Kovalev. According to the investigation records, this purchase cost Kovalev 20,000 Belarusian rubles, which is 300 Russian rubles. When he learned of his friends, planned to set up a bomb in Vitek city center. Vlad immediately offered to buy the arsenal. Kovalev gave Kanovalov the throttle and in just a couple of days learned about a bomb which went off at Vitek city center bus stop. Two people were injured. Vlad realized straight away that this was meant with walk. He shared this during a subsequent interrogation. At that time, 54 people suffered injuries. We can only guess what Kanovalov's reasons were to choose such a place to set up a bomb. The cafe was a place essentially frequented by college students who gathered in the evenings relatively well to do young people with their interests and the active personal lives. Something that Kanovalov, a technical school student from dysfunctional family and with few friends, didn't have. Some specific objects were recovered from the crime scene and from within the victims' bodies. The metallic legs of a 7-year lamplock this led investigators to explore the possible involvement of watchmakers or their family members in perpetrating this crime. In 2005, Vitek's law enforcement agencies started investigating watch repair shops. Hard as it is to believe, police even visited Kanovalov's home because his father is a watchmaker. Officers questioned his father and elder brother, but nobody paid any attention to the younger brother, Dmitry. Neither did decorative officers to go down the cellar where it turned out he had a small laboratory and where he would do chemistry experiments with different reagents. My first Russian reporters were to enter this place. Kanovalov used this place as a laboratory. Right here he assembled self-made explosive devices. Before and in time a little and say that once the suspects had been detained and the place searched, police would discover flasks, syringes, chemicals, soldier, iron, transistors, alarm clocks. They even came across a notebook with formula and diagrams illustrating the manufacture of explosives. Later the cellar which connects all the blasts made by Kanovalov and Kovalev from the bus stop in Vitek's to the metro station in Minsk. All components and elements of the activated explosive device were found in his cellar. You can hardly call it laboratory. Well, in general this place for him is quite enough. He worked here alone. Dmitry never let any outsider into the cellar. Not even his parents, but his friend Vlad Kovalev was quite familiar with this place. Later the expert would prove that. Biological traces of both Kanovalov and Kovalev were found on the mass discovered in the cellar and submitted to us for examination. Some other boys from the neighborhood dropped into Dmitry's cellar to drink beer. Dmitry did not invite them inside the den. They always stayed outside in the general area of the cellar. But a number of people would still catch sight of something. By the way, there is one more interesting detail which hadn't been accounted for up to now. According to the investigators, the cellar keys were found in Vlad's not Dmitry's pocket during the detention of both terrorists. The investigators believed that Kanovalov handed over the keys to Kovalev so that he could be his successor. But let us recollect the events that took place in 2005. Immediately after they visited by the detectives, Kanovalov went to see Vlad to give him the rest of the trophy. The boys decided to hide it immediately. Later Kovalev revealed where they had built the hideout. Here are the shots taken during the investigative experiment. About 250 grams and half of 250 grams. What other items? Hydroperid, a pack of about 10 packages and a little magnet, a cake. After a year, Vlad dug up the trophy Dmitry's request. Then, once everything had come down after the explosions at the conservative's cafe and bus stop, he decided to continue this dirty walk. After some time he said that he was going to make an explosion in the city of Minsk. Even I went to him in the basement and took him with the device to start the bombs. According to Vlad Kovalev, Kanovalov also asked him if he wanted to watch the process of testing the explosive devices. He usually used one same testing ground for each test. Our film crew visited this place and even found bomb craters. He carried out his last test here in February 2011. Now we are at the very place where he carried out an explosion. And you can see a crater at the place where he ignited the blast. Kanovalov filmed his experiments using cameras and mobile phones. Here are some filmed extracts of these tests. By the way, have a look at this extract and pay your attention to this silhouette and remember the gate of the man who sets off a bomb in the Minsk subway. The resumption comment isn't there. According to Kanovalov's personal testimony, after the victims' blast he decided to move to the capital. During the night of 3rd to 4th of July, there was a concert of Belarusian and Russian pop stars on the square near Stela, means Hero City. Nearly half a million people attended the festival. Among the crowd with a bag in their hands, Dmitry Kanovalov, was the first person to take part in the festival. He was the first person to take part in the festival. During the night of 3rd to 4th of July, there was a concert of Belarusian and Russian pop stars on the square near Stela, means Hero City. With a bag in his hands, Dmitry Kanovalov confessed that he was in the crowd that day with a bomb camouflaged in a juice bag. After that, he went to the apartment he had rented beforehand and collected the other bomb. There were several exits. It was like that in the USA. They were all in the apartment. The second one was where? They were in the apartment. They were on the road to the first one. Vlad Kvalov told the investigators about his friends' plan. He planned that after the first explosion there would be panic. People would leave the second one. God would not leave the second one. The plan was like that. For reasons unknown even to Kanovalov, one of the bombs did not detonate. In addition it was found by two men who it must be said are lucky to still be alive. First they kicked the juice bag which was stuffed with straw till as they wanted to see if the bag was full or not. Then they decided to open it. The question is why they were not worried by the wires and switches they saw inside the bag. These men were in a festive mood and they just wanted to find out what was going on. So they were pressing the bombs which several times, but nothing happened. At last the men decided to show the objects they had found to the police officers who were standing nearby. This was the unexploded bomb on which in 2008 the police detected the fingerprints of the alleged terrorist. The fingerprints were not found on the outside of the juice pack, as some people may think, but on the inside of the actual explosive device. The fingerprints were left on the foil that covered the explosive and on the tape that was used to wind the screws inside the explosive device. In the meantime, while the police officers examined the inside of the juice pack, the other bomb detonated at the festival place. As a result, 59 people were injured. The criminal case was initiated by a whole-organism article. Kovalev told the investigator that his friend was not satisfied with the way the article had qualified his act. He was disappointed that he had left his fingerprints. Everything went wrong. In addition, several days afterwards the president announced that fingerprinting would be obligatory for all Belarusian men. Dmitry Kanovalov, however, managed to escape having his fingerprints taken. Thus, during the army draft of 2009, he received an expert by telling the police that his fingerprints were not found on the inside of the juice pack. He told him that he had been fingerprinted the day before. The expert took his word for it and issued the certificate which enabled Dmitry Kanovalov to avoid the fingerprinting procedure. This certificate was placed in the personnel file of Constry Kanovalov, enabling him to leave for his military unit without undergoing the fingerprinting procedure. So for the next years, Kanovalov was undetectable to law enforcement agencies. Later, this expert would be convicted for negligence due to the prison time. Meanwhile, Kanovalov wasted no time during his military service. Before leaving the army, he stole three fire extinguishers. Each of them could be used as a bombshell. They would all be found later when his cellar was searched. They had labels with index numbers corresponding to the fire extinguishers which were used in Kanovalov's military unit. Upon leaving the army, Kanovalov immediately met his friend Vlad Kovalov and told him about his intention to bomb the Minsk subway. However, according to the evidence given later by Kovalov, when Dmitry told him about his intention to bomb the subway, he didn't pay much attention. After the day of their meeting, they did not see each other for several months. Vlad moved to Minsk, and Dmitry stayed in Vitivsk. After the day of their meeting, Vlad moved to Minsk, and Dmitry stayed in Vitivsk. But their next meeting must be fatal. In the beginning of April 2011, Dmitry's police checked his fingerprint database. It appeared that the database did not contain the fingerprints of Dmitry Kanovalov. They immediately called him to the police for fingerprinting. Kanovalov obtained medical sick leave certificate. But little did he know that on the 9th of April, officers would come to his home and have him fingerprinted there. As soon as they left, he made a phone call to Kovalov, who was in Minsk. Kanovalov went down to the cellar and built the bomb. It did not take him much time and effort. Judging by the investigative experiment, all his motions were rehearsed to perfection. For example, it took Dmitry only 57 seconds to make this explosive device. Whereas any layman asked to do the same thing would have taken significantly longer. I got the impression that he brightened up at the opportunity of building an explosive device. As if he got satisfaction from this task. Yes, and what's more, he was given an opportunity to perform a job he liked doing. During the experiment, Kanovalov immediately gave detailed responses to all questions put to him by the expert. How could a man with no experience in dealing with explosives know how to filter these kind of substances and what to do with it? The expert's conclusion on the matter, including from Russian experts, was unambiguous. The bombs set off in the metro in 2011 and the bomb, which did not detonate at the cellar in 2008, were used by the experts. There is no evidence that it may not have been him the perpetrator. During the investigative experiment, he changed his working habits in any way. In fact, almost everything was reproduced accurately. Kanovalov assembled the bomb in his cellar, and the next day he went to the Vitebs railway station. Within a few hours, Dmitry was in Minsk. Here he is, walking around the city. At the station, he was met by Vlad Kovalev. Now you can see them both coming up the escalator. At this moment Vlad knows what is inside the bag. Here are the two boys carrying the same black bag which would blow the metro the next day. Vlad bought the local ads newspaper to find somewhere for Dmitry to rent. It wasn't long before both of them were in a rented apartment. Dmitry decided immediately to take a reconnaissance trip to the metro station. Now you see the unique episode. Kanovalov is starting the whole Aksebro-Sky metro station area. It was the day before the blast. He is looking around. The boys decided to spend the evening with the girls. Dmitry recalled that through social media he had met a girl called Yana Pachitskaya who lived in Minsk. He decided to call her. They agreed to meet at the Frunze-Sky metro station. Yana Pachitskaya came accompanied by her girlfriend. Yana's girlfriend checked to be sure that no harm would come to the girl. The boys looked decent and left. The three drunk vodka all evening then went to sleep. Although Yana preferred to meet with Kanovalov she slept in the same bed as Vlad. You say that you got to know Dmitry through the Vkontakte website and then you came to see him, is that right? Yes. So why did you sleep with Vlad? In a bed? Yes. Damn, I don't know. I fell asleep. Did you have any sexual relations? No, we only watched TV. We didn't have sex with either Dmitry or Vlad. With neither of them. By the way both the boys had relational difficulties with girls, particularly Kanovalov. The investigators interviewed almost all the girls who had ever met Dmitry. Not one of them said that there was a sexual relationship with him. Could this be another possible motive for his aggression? This is only an assumption. In the morning of the 11th of April Vlad left for work and returned only for lunch. The group continued drinking. Kanovalov was drinking little. He said that he had some work to do. Kovalev was drinking a lot. About five o'clock in the evening Yana noticed that her new friends had secluded themselves behind the curtain which divided the room into halves. They opened the curtain from this side and saw that they were doing something in the back. Where was the bag? It was here. Was it right here? Yes, and they were sitting. The boys immediately closed the bag and told her to go to the kitchen. It became obvious later that they had been putting the bomb into state of operational readiness. It is important to realize that Kovalev was an electrician. It was the electric circuit of the explosive device that was brought into action. We can only logically determine what Kovalev's role was in putting the explosive device into operation. So Dmitry Kanovalov left the rented apartment at about five o'clock in the evening. We have already shown you how he moved along Minsk metro. I have now watched the unique extracts of the investigative experiment. This evidence search was carried out at night when the metro was closed. Now Kanovalov shows how he passed through the Frunzienskaya pay gate and how he came down the escalator and entered the carriage. Now the metro is working for Kanovalov. He is still number one. It is a weird moment of glory for a narrow-minded, lonely, screwed-up boy called Dmitry Kanovalov. Then he explains in details where he left the bag, how he walked up to the overpass between stations and how he chose a safe place for himself. Where did you look? Where? What was he looking for? Having examined the video recording of the investigative experiment, we chose the part which can be compared with the snapshot that was used by police officers to establish the location of the alleged terrorism immediately after the blast in the metro. Look, Kanovalov has just come back to the rented apartment, but now without his bag. He switched on the TV straight away to watch breaking news about the October Sky Station blast. They were telling them that these guys were eating, that it would have been better to bomb something else, but now we are killing innocent children. Did you really say that to them? Yes. And what did they say? They were laughing. The next day the group continued drinking. They went to buy more vodka and some oranges. A person police officer recognized Kanovalov. The photograph of the one terrorist was in his pocket. They were then detained whereupon the evidence would be checked and confirmed in every detail. All the pieces of evidence would match fingerprints, components of the explosive devices video, but all that was not enough for the mother to agree with the arguments of the investigation. Lubov Kovalova still doesn't believe that Vlad and his friend Dmitry perpetrated this unhuman terrorist attack. Investigation? There is no evidence of my son's guilt. Against my son there is no evidence at all. But there is no evidence even against Kanovalov. Understand? Lubov Kovalova considered that during the initial interrogation Kanovalov hadn't been feeling sick because he had drunk too much the day before. Everybody could see it when we were showing the interrogation video recordings in court. Dmitry had been severely beaten. He could neither speak nor see it. The woman ensured that Dmitry and Vlad incriminated themselves and that during interrogations and investigative checks they had learned by heart. He was mostly assembling the explosive device with strong prompting from the expert. His name is Kozares as far as I remember. For example, he tells him, now you have taken this, Dmitry says, yes, I have taken this, and he starts doing it. In human terms we can understand she is the mother and she I suppose has the right not to believe. Though during the court trial Dmitry Kanovalov repeatedly admitted to 2008 and in the Minsk metro in 2011. The only thing he didn't admit to was perpetrating the Vitebs bombings. He didn't want to confess to the Vitebs explosion because it was his hometown. He had friends there and many people there knew him. In denying having committed the Vitebs crime it was as if he was saying he didn't do anything bad to the people of his native town. But it is difficult to negate the fact. On the top of Kanovalov's interrogation confession allow us to remind you about some of it. There were metal parts of the Sivaniv alarm clock contained in the bombs which exploded in Vitebsk in 2005. The same parts were detected later during the search of Kanovalov's cellar. In addition, his fingerprint was found on the bomb which did not go off. The Interpol database contained the person's fingerprint since 2008. They matched that once after last year's bomb. Well, it's hardly possible to believe that Interpol could place somebody's fingerprints in its database for money. Post-facto is just impossible. Consequently, having studied all the evidence, the court of Belarus found Mitriy Kanovalov and Vlad Kovalev guilty of several bombings and sentenced them to the capital punishment. I could not understand at once how such young men could do it. I had a feeling that they had no parents or relatives as they committed it. I saw nothing human in their faces and eyes. Well, I don't know what to say. They are un-people in my opinion. This is not a punishment for them. They will be simply killed and how many people were crippled and how many of them anguished as they were dying. The two men sentenced to execution appealed to Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus for pardon. Alexander Lukashenko denied this appeal. I was in the metro in 40 minutes. I remember my people were preventing me from going there. They asked me, and what if there is another bomb? We cannot exclude the possibility. But it was impossible for me not to go there. I was actually there. I saw the scene. There is nothing personal there. And I experienced this. It is mine. I must bear this cross. And I will bear it with or without God's help. It concerns me. And it was my right to grant pardon or not. We tried to find people who could come down in favor of the accused person. We tried to find victims who believed that Kanavalov and Kovalev were not guilty. Lyubov Kovalev says that there were people who believed that they were not guilty. Even the victims of these crimes are there. Oh my God, what are you doing? You are monsters. People were crying and screaming. We made telephone calls to more than 30 people, who that evening were in the metro and then participated in the court trial. None of them had any doubts. It is simply a sacrilege in my mind. So all this story of this type they are so young. They are only 25 years old. So how could it happen? And why is their punishment so severe? Do you condemn such opinion? Yes, I condemn them. I expect that all people who were in this hell condemn them too. The family of Roman Kaptu, who will never make the age of 22, like many other families of the victims of these terrorist acts are still bemoaning their loved one. It was unbearable to see just recently, just before his birthday on the 15th I woke because she was crying in her sleep. She was crying. She was whipping, I must say. It was horrible to watch. And how could I go to sleep then? I woke because she was crying again. And that is why it is difficult for them to understand why on the day the terrorists were executed. They brought flowers to the Belarusian embassy in Russia. For Belarusian people it would be like, for example, someone bringing the portrait of Hitler to Hattin, depositing in there and lighting candles. It would be a similar act. Speaking about moratorium of the death penalty, the death penalty is still used in Belarus as a capital punishment. It may shock or disturb some people, but this is the law of the country. Neither the court nor the victims have any doubts that the true perpetrator of the terrorist acts in the metro were punished. There are no doubts left. I wonder if those people who brought flowers to the Belarusian embassy are watching us now. Of course, you are fully in your right to not believe these images, to name our reporter's devil incarnates and agents of Lukashenka. To such people I have just one request from the Supreme Power. On a final note, the legality of the death penalty is a different issue. That is all for today. It was The Man and the Law. We will meet next week.