This year, at the international documentary film festival in the Netherlands, the right to present her best ten films was granted to Finnish film director Pirjo Khonkassalo. She brought to the festival a film about the war in Chechnya, where heroes are members of the Gataev Chechen family.

"The film festival is held on November 17-28 in Amsterdam. This is the 23rd annual international film festival of documentary films. According to its tradition, every year to one of film directors is given the right to present his or her ten best films. This year this honour was awarded to Ms Khonkassalo. Her choice includes the 'Three Rooms of Melancholia' - about the war in Chechnya and the fate of the Gataev family, who saved children during the war," Oksana Chelysheva, Deputy Head of the Finnish Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship ...

People in Finland known little about what is happening in Chechnya; and the book by Arkadi Babchenko, a journalist and a veteran of the Chechen warfare, "The Colour of War" fills the gap in knowledge, said Anu Lenkvist, translator of the book into Finnish. The interests of residents of Finland to the conflict in Northern Caucasus as a whole is great, says rights defender Oksana Chelysheva.

Oksana Chelysheva, a human rights defender, a journalist and deputy head of the Finnish organization "Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship", who was also present at presentation of the book in Helsinki, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the interest in Finland residents to books of the authors writing about the war is very great, especially of those who write about the war in Northern Caucasus.

"The Finns themselves have noted that ...