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now offering to retrieve any information from anyone's phone for a sizable feat. coming your way here in our two year especially record the focus is on how the x. i mean republic of armenia has developed two decades after the collapse of the soviet union. people living in this land seven thousand years ago were already making wine and shoes this world's oldest shoe was villain right here in this hall in the fourth century armenia adopted christianity as its state religion i was fit for stage two. in the early twentieth century armenians went through the horrors of genocide we thought of only one point five million years we keeled group with on me a break free from the soviet union in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one was hans independent brought to this ancient country.

in two thousand and eight archeologist very scarce but again could have rivaled armenian politicians in terms of popularity news of his discovery had spread far and wide throughout the world in caves in the mountains around the village of allan e. the archaeologist had found the settlements dating back to the year five thousand b.c. . and is also believed this was for among the first finds a weasel to come we saw them it was immediately clear to us that they voted from the corporon stone age that means the people were in really living in the east coast seven thousand years ago so even the communities mentoring very close contact inhabited nereus which were in the north caucasus and miserable time in the used migrate from north to sell the only self to north of the. excavation work at the site of the ancient settlement has been going on for three years now but

archaeologists are still unable to say with certainty what kind of people lived in these caves seven thousand years ago. just take a look from you can see a very interesting ritual the bodies of babies on the one year of age old bear intact but women between the ages of eleven twenty five simply chalked up a full burials. the most interesting artifact was found in a case in two thousand and eight the world's oldest shoe was dug up from a depth of just half a meter is estimated to be about six thousand years old zeus world's oldest shoe was very right here in this hole it took was a great deal of effort to get it with the discovery of the settlement is an event of crucial importance to the small transco occasion country armenians are proud of the long history of this land and the find reinforces their pride.

in on the media there are a few other handicrafts they can unite generations is not such as the making of hatch cars or tombstones. the arts has undergone little change throughout its thousand year history and hammer and stone are all that's needed for the job a man and his grandson a working on this much car. do i don't suppose i like the job. it is handed down from generation to generation. the one who taught me as my grandfather. over the course of his long life the elderly man has made scores of hatch cars nowadays in mentors his grandson in the ways of hatch car sculpting. there are millions of high church here each with

a different as they differ just as people do all of the carving curran's are different even on some particular cone stone there's a show that the world isn't perfect. each grave or monastery has its own tailor made tombstone normally it takes about a month to make one this symmetry in a village of nora those is one of the oldest in armenia the long history of this caucasian country the history packed with. drama can be traced by looking at the tombstones set up until the seventh century look quite simple as that there is nothing but across the first crust of. the hash code as in the symmetry don't feature carvings although the graveyard of the small town of spit tag is much larger. than before the quake it was

a small symmetry but as you can see now it's quite big. the richest of it too so for today's to bury quake victims are tossed sort of to see and comes to the symmetry quite often the always follows the same routes in a smaller fall place as he moves from one grave to another on the sim of the seventh one thousand nine hundred eighty eight he lost nearly all of his family. it was ten forty am when the first tremor with a magnitude of seven on the ridge the scale shook spit out the seconds later the tiny town was no more just a pile of rubble. more than all of that on main street in a center of the town was c. and. when the quake struck there were people in every apartment out of five story houses from the phyllis's here and both sides of the road huge practically all of

them fell a bunch of fish fish only roos lying on a horse field could be seen out of the quake of one. there is a church where our tours house once was more than twenty years on there are few reminders of that devastating earthquake. but in the cold month of december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight people around the world came to know the name of this small town in armenia aid began pouring in. from across the soviet union at that time armenia was part of it. the powerful earthquake affected all of armenia's northern areas as well as. the scale of the disaster only became apparent after several days just a handful of people had survived under the rubble the earthquake had claimed twenty five thousand lives. such as the huge the door when the smoke cleared away three or four hours after the earthquake became clear that the town had been razed

to the ground where they'd begin arriving towards leaving because there were no rooms for. some of the aid came from numerous diasporas in foreign countries. this footage shows charles as an avoider a french singer of armenian origin after a visit to devastated street tak he vows to do his best to help armenia. so much that i was really shocked by what i saw in spain. i could never imagine their polling scale of that disaster. because so many people were killed here look at. the french scene and set up a fund for the earthquake struck country the money was used to restore thousands of houses in spits hakon gordie's armenians second largest town it too had been affected by the disaster the town's residents unveiled a monument to as nevaeh as

a token of gratitude to him here for a movie on field the monument on the twenty second of september in two thousand our series was not what people from all over and many came here were also visitors from france. after the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred ninety one reconstruction work in armenian town slowed down the new houses built in the three years after the disaster made up only one fifth of those destroyed by. the earthquake. we came here on december second we were given a room on the ground floor and we still lived here most of the tenants here are refugees. and his family also lost their home in december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight they became refugees but not as a result of the earthquake it was a bloody interethnic conflict that forced them to flee.

armenia is a republic situated in the trans caucuses and join the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred twenty two when the republic won independence in september one thousand nine hundred ninety one this was the most troubled region in the post soviet space the country was a war with neighboring azerbaijan over nagorno-karabakh. only shot the wood for the winter. this year and this is our home you know you these are my grandchildren doing their

homework or working. as our stove it and we made it ourselves because there's no other source of reading in here your news of the shoe and his house in azerbaijan's capital of baquba was larger and more comfortable they had to leave their native city in a hurry already there was gunfire in the corner cared about as an by johnny's or fleeing that area meanwhile the situation for armenians living in. azerbaijan was becoming increasingly dangerous. and when for quite a good deal for instance my husband had an aunt with a dark complexion it was easy to see that she was a median she was attacked several times on the natural. conflicts root cause stems from the one nine hundred twenty s. when azerbaijan and armenia joined the soviet union big only care about a territory where armenians had been a predominant population from time immemorial was placed under azerbaijan's control they didn't matter much you controlled nagorno-karabakh back then the soviet

republics were part of an integrated country by the time bomb eventually went off and violence erupted between the two in the late one nine hundred eighty s. . the soviet government showed signs of weakness at the start of perestroika when people were told they could speak up without running the risk of being imprisoned oryx a curator of the group of people across the soviet union began talking about their concerns a means in a golden color buck started dozen questions i wanted to know why the old part of azerbaijan even though armenia was next door to a country populated by people of the same nationality and culture when you put your most of the girls with her. back who flatly rejected the advance demands the nagorno-karabakh be handed over to armenians control. meanwhile the first major interethnic conflict was gathering pace in the soviet union south it had been

fuelled by events in the small town of some guy eat the azerbaijan's capital good will soon good massacre was the point of no return people were murdered mind you people were killed not in a going to care about itself but in soon going to a town situated far from not going to care about going to go to there is no war now but there is no peace either there is no peace treaty which will in the. no honor and i'm certainly not dodging and understand here is nearly dead you i was in the army then was memories are those days come to contrast and this is but cool . there is a map of the soviet union in go night up at the ends workshop as a tailor you need something colorful to rest his eyes on but the map also gives food for thought he recalls the days when everybody lived in the same country

a country that later burst at the seams. this so there are now which was founded in november two thousand and five there was this editor found the girl the college is there and is of this and between and there i go and i am a. nobody at least the siri can say with any certainty when cognac from this barrel will be bottles but it has every chance of becoming a vintage brand adding to the distilleries rich collection. adds an ascent to a trench of three hundred bottles and branded me each here and that's when equality granted. the british prime minister was not alone in appreciating this brandy in soviet times a million cognac was the main symbol of the republic. many agree that the strong

beverage produced in a trance caucuses could easily compete with french cognac manufacturers and. change and soon they're going to flavor is intense you can sense a whole bouquet of flavors vias for pretty unique beverages different from yours here i can detect the flavor of our brands the sunshine of our add value and the beauty of our landscapes of the in. the production. process in armenia and france is totally identical as spirits are distilled in the same way and the oak barrels look very much alike the armenians are just proud of their product as the french are of theirs going out and i think that corny arc is one of the most important and the most recognizable brands produced in our nina got to go and see that it's won over and we as symbols soon beloved a minute. under wraps can be seen from several spots and yet over the entire

history of the armenian people is links to it but it's off limits to armenians they can't reconcile themselves with the loss. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on party. there. in russia would be so much brighter if you knew about someone from finest

impressions. for instance on t.v. dot com. the mountains height is five thousand one hundred thirty seven meters above sea level according to the bible mounts are rats was the first landmark the noah sought after escaping the great flood mount you know in the bible testified and it is connected with noir ark saw after the little noir arc stopped on the peak of the moment. however is the main source of pain and suffering for armenians under the nine hundred twenty one agreements signed by soviet and turkish leaders the symbolic mountain was left on the other side of the border the mountain to be territory of turkey but still it continues to be armenian seemed i mean people there are asked about their national identities they start with among

that the fact that out of that is no longer in their territory also serves as a reminder of the greatest tragedy of the country's people the armenian genocide genocide is the word used in armenian to describe the policy pursued by the ottoman empire towards ethnic armenians from the late nineteenth century through to the one nine hundred twenty s. been told over in ninety eighty ninety four one hundred twenty two within thirty years needed to move to the nearest only one point five million armenians killed brutally at the same time turkey was the first country to officially recognize i mean is independent. ninety ninety one today turkish society is divided over the events that led to the deaths of one and a half million armenians in the early twentieth century and killer a fuse is to officially acknowledge the fact of what happened a century ago was genocide is one of the hardest. problems between two

nations the fundamental problem fundamental problem here is that turkey in order is sort of facing its own history a try and keep trying to deny the very part of take issue shameful pate of its own history i mean and genocide rewriting history is one of the dangerous processes in every society uncurse supported azerbaijan at the height of the ethnic conflict over nagorno-karabakh they closed its borders to armenians the border between armenia and azerbaijan is likewise locked up. given airport is the main gateway to armenia travelers have little choice considering your van's difficult relations with neighboring countries the zs way of getting together van is by air with both of those. you have to go boy here if you want to we were me and we'll see only we because this country has been located throughout the post soviet period.

there really has learned borders will georgian around but there is little cross border traffic theory here for gone by here is still the bare starch. nearly every plane is filled to capacity it's clearly demonstrated by flights going to russia which is now armenia's biggest economic partner one of the largest armenian diasporas is found in moscow and many of these mediation is the only means of transport for a niña it's obvious that there is no other way yet. that's why our planes are always feels passing. his old school. thanks. armenia was the world's first country to turn christianity into

a state's religion that was way back in the early fall century a.d. for more than fifteen centuries armenians have regarded face and church as a substitute for the state. hierarchy american saving human souls and preserving the nation are the two missions personhood by the armenian church today as it has been doing throughout its existence arc and we're doing our best to remedy the harm done by the genocide over i mean hundred eighty years of godlessness under the soviet regime. fortunately the soviet campaign to stamp out the church had little impact in armenia it didn't affect the scores of ancient monasteries many of them are over a thousand years old. it's now possible to reach the top of monastery one of armenia's oldest by cable way. is the world's longest reversible road the

fifteen minute journey offers a magnificent view of a deep picturesque pool. it's just not what we are in the cabin of the toto of cableway the world's longest it links the village of abbots or to the total monastery. others of it is five thousand seven hundred fifty meters long and its highest point above ground is three hundred twenty meters was you know. when the cableway was opened in october twenty ten the hope was that it would attract foreign tourists. its design is unique in many ways for instance the nearly six kilometer long cable way has only three supports european specialists help to build it. this is our main electric generator produces five hundred thirty three kilowatts here you can see the emergency diesel

generators if the electricity fails we will turn these on and evacuate the passengers we have a great safety system in place to it most of the cable car passengers are people living in nearby villages and get. free transport influx of foreign tourists is small for the time being but the businessmen who have invested in the ambitious projects believe that in a couple of years armenia will become a popular tourist destination. hotels and campsites are already being built around the monastery and the cable way. we need water of different temperatures to treat gastrointestinal diseases were destroyed as in particular if the patient is suffering from high acidity of destroyed the temperature of the mineral water we give him is between fifty and fifty three degrees celsius in low e. cities in cases it's from thirty to thirty five degrees. the town of journal maclise in the mountains during the soviet years people here already knew how to attract

tourists a spa similar to the celebrated karlovy valley resort has been in operation in jeddah but decades that it must survive the composition of our award are usually better than that oh the water is karl over the bar in the czech republic. our water contains morons here ions and minerals and when all that said about. local mineral water is yet another the armenian brand it is true though that it's not as famous as cognac or ancient monasteries but residents of gentlemen hope that the water and spa resort will be another incentive for people to visit armenia. a german communal water springs from the ground in those words. between forty five and sixty degrees over what most old settlements result from our mineral water of the. the time being only tourists from russia visit the gentleman explains.

this huge bucket contains molten iron many and it will take several hours and a production process involving a dozen phases for the allen minium to be turned into super fine for oil this plant is one of amin is leading industrial enterprises like many others it was inherited from the soviet era but like most other industrial plants is to idle during the first years of independence that was a very difficult period for this nation the plan survival began in two thousand but it became part of a row. been holding them up this is not the lunch was reopened after modernizations despite the crisis it has grown stronger with each passing year good. discussions in our mediums work here together the assets are rushing off the. other turns that when young represents what might be called the local dentist the his father used to

work at his plant my old and my mother and father used to work here now it's time for my brother and me but i'm not a unique case and everybody here has taken the job over from their old folks. the plant is one of the most successful in the country it should come as no surprise they have russian investment and the whole of the coaxes as their markets. would for example the color of the more taro you see a little newts we get dice from herbs a god to make sure both mean he dies meets the road loop door through it looks like terry for there are fewer dollars the real matter produces a very beautiful red dye no chemicals around it nothing but natural components making rugs is a family business to the subtleties of this very old all meaning handicraft handed down from generation to generation. because the little square means

synonymous with a weave of row after row boats and every color is here it is. like the element implants this factory has a soviet past behind it then automatically looms are brought in to make rugs quickly and in large quantities none the less ancient technologies have become popular in armenia since independence. takes a month for we were to complete one square meter is also a very difficult job taking a lot of air for whatever reason their prices are higher than those of machine made world so going to. and such are a good home is seen as a sign of wealth. there are some ten million ethnic armenians around the world just simmer three million of them live in armenia the armenians at home believe that the worst of a country's history is a thing of the past in year of and they like to say the nights are their darkest just before dawn people across armenia believe that dawn has already broken over

their country.