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over the first parliamentary elections of a self-proclaimed republic of kosovo he says this vote is pointless as long as people are divided from each other. programs continue we warm up and hospitality of the people of russia north caucasus. i know great things about north setting you're alone in the people are supposed to be amazingly friendly the scenery breathtaking and the food never ending and it's only a short hop away from moscow just two hours by plane or frame by its towering mountains the region is home to more than seven hundred thousand people just on the song based on body count counts the area's administrative center and the city is capital city. in russian blood a kind of caste means ruler of the caucasus and the city is decorated with monuments to its proud military history and its culture past and present.

this is going to be my favorite sculpture in. these two gentlemen to play a game of noddy which is the most popular board game in the caucuses so sort of like a cross between backgammon and draw. and it looks like it's. going to have a busy trip and i wanted to make sure that i picked up a few souvenirs before i set off into the mountains all i needed was a couple of local girls to provide some gift inspiration i think excuse me could you tell me where you bought your shuttles to shop together in the shop of the ladies pointed me in the direction of selina's workshop she and her colleagues make handmade a setian shawls following a design that's been popular here for centuries. and first we examine the museum exhibits and tell me alter that all our artists on the basis of what we've got to make the big. an individual pattern is sketched out and then handed over to

most a seamstress to begin and it's a painstaking process two months work. so who better to teach me to find something. useful in that place everything. but that doesn't mean the needle was going to go where it was supposed to go yes she did it i'm getting the feeling that i probably should have paid more attention to my gran when she was knitting. having a hard to. find good. it was becoming more. drop ten so i left told her to tidy up after me and moved on to the next stage. was now that you can see the ground work has been prepared and. it's possible to embroider this. each unique can sell for up to one hundred fifty dollars but it seems that's not all that salinas company makes. oh i thought these women

here makes the dolls and she dresses them all by national costume. was like walking into a little girl's dream worlds these dolls are all individually decorated and have costumes from a set and other parts of the caucuses and if you don't have a doll's house to put them in some will be just as happy on the teapot. but this is much more than just a souvenir shop each one of these could be a collector's item i'm just wondering if we might find a couple of life size versions of these two anyway. with gift buying sorted i was ready to head into the mountains and the region has plenty of dedicated volunteers to make sure you have a safe trip. you only have to see these amazing beers to understand how popular a sport rock climbing is in this area but of course it can also be extremely dangerous which is why north a city is mountain rescue teams are always in business. so he's been working here

for more than ten years and promised to show me what it takes to be in a city ranger. we were meeting up with a group of one of the rangers taking their final practical exams in the winter rescuers have to deal with an accident every single day and that can often mean carrying a victim over treacherous terrain. so you can see it's really the of the makeshift here we've got. some ski poles and then the ropes that you would take with you on a normal mountaineering expedition and this is what they're using to make this makeshift stretcher. and victim is secure he's going to be moved. through and then once we have touched him. the point man at the front here. and out to help us. to help get him across hopefully safely. but of course the rescuers

have got to make it to the other side too. right. but getting the man across the canyon is one of the simplest tasks of the rescue and there are plenty of other obstacles in their way with. day visiting the mountains during the season it's essential that new ranges are prepared for everything. is secure. of course it's vital that the injured party gets a smoother ride as possible and that was where i came in. kind of human. up against a wall. and. i

really had the easy job it. needed a bit of help. right. get zero. zero. zero. because. you could see the amount of hard work that these guys have to put in to become rescue ranges could be tough. who are feeling prepared for any of a long while if the rangers i'm headed on into the mountains one of my favorite parts of any trip is checking out the local wildlife and i've heard in the peaks here there are some very famous residents. so i'm going in search of the legendary. these.

and an expert never hurts. hello. to the especially cajun mountain gotos made their home here for thousands of years the highly prized by hunters for their meat and their huge horns but they're also smart enough to keep plenty of distance between them and. a pretty coming these mountain goats it's hunting season and they haven't moved from the top of those mountains. sadly it seemed that that was as close to the torah as we were going to get but there was another skill i had to learn just in case i was ever around here on a very different sort of expedition. so there's no getting away from it if you're going hunting you need to be able to handle one of these as the closest i've ever got to following live rounds has been

a game so it's going to show me how to do it. right. there right now. i have never really mixed so understandably i was eager to learn how to best not to accidentally kill myself. but. this is a most in frightful seven point six two caliber. ok to fire you must first pressing the button to the shoulder. between the eye and the scope should be some seven centimeters. take him into the sights look if not. then pull the trigger slowly. and fire you probably we still think where you're waiting. patiently explained the process apparently my rifle dates back to before the second world war so it was about as tried and tested as a firearm could be and with that small to scope surely my plastic didn't stand

a chance. i do a little for us on this program this one i am recording. is going to get right into shoulder. so i don't dislike ac and then squeeze the trigger. and after all that build up. i completely miss who. don't have the bottle is still alive but you know what they say if it first you don't succeed. ok. yeah second never saw straight down the middle. oh no you actually did that. look it's moving it's not fake fox real. calm down unfortunately that was pretty much as good as it got but i did

manage to hit one other thing before we ran out of bullets. and concrete pillars stern dead. on the mountain goats live to fight another day. feeling confident that i would now survive any tourist sneak attacks i left saw and carried on hiking into the hills and when i reached an ancient watchtower i knew i was close to one of the region's most memorable sights. the views here and of the city are almost endlessly beautiful but if you come up to the mountains and search for a while you can find a seemingly innocent looking place with the since. this place is called dark all

leaders grange and it's a somber as it sounds. is a local journalist and told me a little about its history. this so-called town of the dead is one of the largest nicopolis is in europe in russia. fifty different families are buried here in the east. four hundred years until the end of the eighteenth century living plague victims were brought here by their families and simply left to die each building belong to a different family and the bigger your two the richer you were. the drawing windy climate is kept the bones here in excellent condition some even have tufts of hair still clinging to the scalp. but you just come forget how they got here. i can understand that you have to separate the infected from the healthy but i can't think of anything more terrifying. being brought here sick placed among the bodies

of your relatives alive and already in your own two. don't go says a fascinating insight into the region's cost history but i can't say i was sorry to leave it behind and i was ready for some slightly less chilling the setian attentions.

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you could easily spend days sightseeing in the acetylene wilderness but i needed to get back to the capsule valley cash cows and that meant i needed a taxi. amazingly even up here in the mountains in the coaxes it can still get pretty good fun reception of course that doesn't help if like me you've forgotten the charge of the thing but it's even stuck out here in the middle of nowhere that

might not be such a big problem. at least if you know when to find an enterprising local engineer to use you know i was definitely if. a plug in the middle of the outfits. we had like. using metal salvaged from an old mine and a little help from mother nature action has built his own hydroelectric power station and supplies him in a few lucky neighbors with free electricity and he can crank up the voltage when he likes this is sluice gates. regulate how much water comes out anyone thought. the water flows down the channel and through a two and a half ton turbine which turns an axle and supplies power to the generator meaning actual constantly has more than three hundred volts of electricity on top. how's that for a one man engineering project produces enough electricity here so far in work that

crane and power another twenty one the house is as well. unfortunately it turns out that a taxi will even pick you up out here for the right price. as i was ready to check out a different kind of power. there's always been a strong relationship in the caucuses between him and his horse here in the set here it's no different but only the very best roy to get a chance to join the troop. you know. once again place you don't bend your knees to legs. i like the guy if charges are performed all over russia or in europe there's no easy ride in this company. i feel good. the ground.

game. the whole troop exuding glamour and danger i can see why people would flock to see them perform but what exactly does it take to become a stunt rider. each person has their own story that if you come to a theater above all else i love animals after all i was born in the year of the horse i like whole says this one as i like my would think. is the biggest. she's my favorite student she came here after finishing high school school and she's with us yes. now we'll try to show you the course of every horseman. but i mean straight legs sit down softly what do you want and james. i guess some other. women writing a few times in my travels around russia so obviously i was moved and ready to take

the next step. apparently a full year is the troops most compliant horse perfect for some how much acrobatics . question is it. it's like. everything's fine it's impossible to fall from that it turns out the doing a press up on a horse is not quite as effortless as alex riders make it seem so i settle for a quick trial to ride the paddock much more my style. isn't this fall most of the laws any of this rushing around and leaping out of your saddle i can't imagine people paying to watch it. but it suits me to spot but i think now go go go a funny. straight legs us line don't bend your name but. i left a phone here and i like to prepare for that make spectacular i'm back in town i have another appointment time needed to keep. so this should give you an idea

of how friendly the people are here in a setting i've only been there a few days and i've already been invited to a wedding unfortunately my best suit is languishing in a wardrobe back in moscow which means that if i want to look at fault i'm going to need some help. this is the house of his old traditional tailors that's been supplying drawing screens and guests for the best part of twenty eight. courses how there are a few steps. each costume is made to order and the detail ispat. the graffiti in these days and ask them graphic nationals to let their grandmothers used to weave such gold embroidery and where this costumes as you went. as they like to use was at the end of a question was one of the general plot of the cost you women used to make centuries

is mad. it doesn't dance to make wondrous. machine and there's one other accessory that's always included these are. the four opening in the wedding where the groom should lead a flank around brights head with three times is the five and five and bottom of the first but them that much give the bearers to seven healthy boys and one healthy girl but those same length and then she takes it up but this authenticity doesn't come cheap and oligarchs do so once me down the aisle in a hundred thousand dollars all the creation. by sydney ship comes to the final stroke class isn't it beautiful very beautiful but i was in the market for a slightly cheaper option but i was still getting the royal treatment would you not only the measures. i was to name. but i'll warn.

this is the way you quickly find out the horrible tree about how much weight you put on or how many and she said to me this you put on your adventures around russia . for really just to turn left and close the good of me that it's fifty one. and the slave is six to so. much as to become my wife also as one bonus. with all my measurements recorded is old and how ladies got to work in a few days later i was ready to try on my new outfits so i just got to finish adjusting my bullets belts here. and the finishing touch to this amazing outfit so. i think i'm anything don't. finally the big day has arrived john allen's wedding we still had a while before we would you to go and pick up shauna. people arrived it became

increasingly obvious that i was the only person wearing traditional dress and they were expecting over a thousand guests. so you might think the reception is already begun but you'd be wrong because the point doesn't even made her appearance yes this is just the pre-processing that's my kind of wedding. to. assess years she means a lot of food close of toasts. the first ones to good. decisions to some. numbers three through ten are a bit of a blur. and it's only then that the guests are invited to meet the lady of the day . she might have already said hello to a few hundred people but joan is day is only just beginning. as this is one of the most for the whole city entire ceremony of the bride is introduced to the oldest much respect to the members of the prince family sees officially welcome to cause

of the company but that doesn't mean that their old relatives are just going to let it leak. this is one way of keeping the bride from being married apparently all these guys have to hold her back and also to get them to leave the broader needs to pay for the privilege. to some good old fashioned bribery because we're already. so the ransom has been paid. for the girl said get out of the way. and that is the equivalent of a bull session. giveaway of the brides. another round of crazy drawing and horn honking later we were back at the groom's party and it was time for john to be fully on fails.

the whole day has been a constant mix of food and solemn ceremony but amazingly a lot and jonah hadn't met once but then i noticed that they both slipped out of the main hall. so it goes. but brides on our group are actually in the same reason on the same day of their wedding that is pretty unusual is that all the way from each other. i list the happy couple to it but by then my outfit of the trying to do little attention and i can say i was surprised when i was told to prove my innocence and adults right. here exceeded my expectations from the beauty of its mountains to the hospitality

of its people it's a place i really didn't want to leave it doesn't matter who you all who way you're from come here. and i guarantee you'll feel like you're a. download the official placation to i phone or my pod touch from the i choose our. jaunty life on the go. video on demand teens money comes and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the t. dot com. as

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