  We discuss the claims of the comment at arXiv.org:physics/0609234. We show
that A.V. Kildishev et al. misread our method of extracting of optical
constants of nanostructured films. The theoretical calculations performed in
the comment appear to be in a direct contradiction with an experiment. We
demonstrate that the theoretical calculations suggested being free from
ambiguities (V.M. Shalaev et al., Opt. Lett. 30, 3345 (2005)) require an
additional experimental verification, which can be performed by observing
physical effects of negative refraction.
