self a settee allies in the heart of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over high mountains and cities built many centuries ago still retain their unique history. and a stone drake also b.f. goes for a job every morning. most of the sun in my homeland might you see things in your streams gardens on your land. have always made us so happy. from the hilltop you can fit the south the sente and capital of skin involved in the palm of his hand moments like this fill him with inspiration phase next work. the republic of south a settee allies in the caucasus in borders russia to the north and georgia to the

south west and east. mountains cover ninety percent of south the city is territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. skin vald is its capital the transco cation highway which connects russia to georgia and armenia runs through the city. after his morning run artist andre returns to his studio it is crammed with his works he's never been short of creative ideas except for the time his native land became the scene of an armed conflict back then was the last thing on his mind you know we don't have moments where it's totally neglected my work is wesley during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life alys also changed with the vilest i thought it was never going to end which is with.

uneasy relations between georgia and a setia started in the late one nine hundred eighty s. they became aggravated after georgia withdrew from the u.s.s.r. the deputies of the south the setian parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september one thousand nine hundred ninety which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with the self the setia. on the ninth or from august the seventh to almost the eighth two thousand and eight georgian troops began shelling . the military units were forced to leave the country as a result of the russian peacekeeping operation afterwards russia recognized south ossetia as an independent state.

in august two thousand and eight. and her young daughters spent five days in this basement together with another five hundred people. the residents of skin and underground when the town came under attack. now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to. of course it's bad memory but in fact. because it helped us to stay in. the condo was only nine when the war broke out she was frightened but didn't show her fear in order to not upset her mother the neighbor was constantly by the family side. is georgian her greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in a set. there was no food or water in the basement the underground inhabitants spent

several days totally unaware of what was happening above ground and in constant fear for their lives. the georgians they will down the street you know they were shooting from their submachine guns they thought there was an abandoned house here they were sure there was no one there but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basement of the. head with the i will never forget the noise the whole time. in the room and it got closer and then we heard an explosion really it never crossed our minds that it was from a missile launcher we don't do it. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around. her and she may join me there in black pencil. only store adult while i sat join hands.

sure it was done. really shone in from that place so we also let some candles. is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in c. involve. painted over a buff who's well known here has invited you and other talented youngsters to attend the master class today he's showing the children his own painting it's filled with damage from august two thousand and eight. during the georgian invasion shells and shrapnel destroyed many paintings. several brilliant works were ruined. by witnesses every day and with submachine guns and just riddled the paintings with bullet holes.

but today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. of. the full girly oh that's a great idea to fill the picture with birds dulness said a rainbow is lots of a bright colors. i don't want to remember bad things soft of the war. some of the tools i hope that everything will be bright and colorful.

bright new rooms now doing them houses in post wall street involved. they have a place the old ones that were damaged during the fall but a multi is still to be repaired almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed. over three years the middle close of the building the second floor it does the as well oregon they used to be an organ hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and two thousand eight. hundred years left except for a cunt. it was one of the going.

through. many residents who were left homeless in two thousand and eight have already moved into new apartments this neighborhood was constructed by moscow billed as. the family. lives in a new house in the village of to be yet fifteen kilometers from skin. i know house used to stand at this place for it was completely destroyed during the war only some timber. hit the house and tore his heart of his. family in a trailer for two years. lived in this wagon for two years before they built this house forrest says that's where

we live now. here we do our household chores. a year ago moved into a new two story house then it's hard for me to imagine how to live if they hadn't built a new house for us. there is no peace in the village of to be lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the. a little favorite place things. stood before a child will forget all about. for

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archaeologists. king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five. needless to say there are very many underground passages beneath this down. there. the place was in fact. the tops of old fortresses and watch towers rise from behind the mountains in every direction from. the ancestors of modern necessity and settled in these parts in the eighteenth century. it was a must to build fortifications in every village there are about five hundred watchtower. a watchtower not considered to be a family in the seventeen to eighteen century believe that such

a family would vanish sooner or later as a result of internal and external factors such as. this watchtower is located not far from the town. it was built nearby they extracted the stones for construction from the local mountains. the rocks. and mortar. towers were built and square and. every floor had. to provide a better view this way they could shoot. at least five floors. as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and monasteries.

is a contributor to south the seti is red book of red and endangered animals it will soon be published here on the rocks lizards can be spotted they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the some. of the were not very many people were so scared of lizards that they panic when they see one popular belief is that lizards will bite you ok watch my fingers there's no blood on it not even one drop of course it was one of the lizards can bite through my skin. studies the regions phone. the buzzard hovering over the river is a predatory bird normally it feeds on gophers and mice but now it has a different vision mind. when obviously it's

a plain freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here or in few know that we have them where the female crabs sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have any you know. the settee and freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of both predators and people some eat them mate others breed them at home in aquariums. by of believes crabs should definitely be entered into the red book. this is the lesser asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits a small area near south santee his capital. population has drastically dropped in recent years because of their mass kept jeff a terrariums. minimum though much couple have found a pregnant female. was up in there live bearers when

she gives birth to her young ones they climb on her back to feed their for a while and then they start fending for themselves. during the spring mating period the scorpions poison is especially dangerous mostly pets fall victim to their stings but sometimes even people are attacked. by a suggest establishing a small nature reserve in the school peons habitat it will help protect skin vols residents and help secure the future of an entire species of resco paean at the same time in a game they lived alongside done a source many years ago most of most species from that era have since perished about scorpions have survived to this day as you were. told manager of a team p.f. is traveling to the west of south a setia he's been invited by village residents who want to participate in

ecological tourism. when visitors arrive host ss of one of the homes for past special pies in south assented no mail can go without them. as if you skip it are you sure deliver in addition he or i sit on pies not from potatoes or the meat and cabbage was not using rosemary their field of the cheese and greens see it more than my senator brown is with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to them for their no good. for a set eons pi's a mole than just food it is a special dish for celebrations they make a countless number for funerals only to today the hostess is prepared free with cheese potatoes and greens. its. cover. oh.

let's put them in. the young lady. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. i go to haven't seen you for quite a while. i want to know. in the heart of the pollies quickly turn brown then they take them out and bow to them. i need to talk to you. come in come in. how are you doing to some is almost here it's getting warmer will be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make her. bring some one would. have had a line and freshly baked pies a pair at the table. never turned up high over when you cut it.

and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you at the. thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area that i have never been any industrial facilities here there are no paved roads. lists often come here to wander through the alpine tundra looking for rare flowers to use in infusions. gather well known plonks like time or gone out of the. ladies' man told at least sage and even bilberries. berries and leaves we have a big selection of levels. great

great grandfather used to live here family legend has it that he too was a list he collected plants treated people with infusions and reportedly lived to be one hundred forty years old that has never been any war in the gorge where people collect. the village of my good on the contrary is right on the border between georgia and south of setia. in the past it used to take the local residents an entire day to cover the fifteen kilometers between village. the village was in the occupation zone from. two thousand and three. always been in a city an enclave around it on all science point georgian villages. the georgian government police and special forces here. people living in.

nowadays and now to be love can have a family business he and his son keep bees. gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here then. they collect the honey. that's right. and the lady of the house looks after chickens. living in the country in a village. they

feed the chickens and help their father around the house. the logistical denia diaphanous come to those on her natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech. trees as well as various species of kona for the reserve southern front here borders on an artificial lake. recently a reserve attendant came across an abandoned row cough that was starving to death. and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in and what kind of milk is it it's not true. but i see it is licking your fingers oh yes she has really gotten used to me. says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now

reared in a pan next to the house it has already become domesticated if it were returned to the wild it might easily fall prey to count of those. if. there is a row deer in the smallest species of deer that live in a republic of course. we also have the caspian read that one of the larger species of the deer family. skin volved. the downtown area is commonly referred to as the jewish quarter and still features some houses the date back several centuries. old at that would go well list house here is from the nineteenth century it was built by jewish merchant in soviet times this was a shop and just before the war this house accommodated a jewish community center though it was very beautiful. but if the

streets of the involved archaeologists have discovered numerous toll switch sprawl the length of the city where those underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it's still poses one of those tunnels which practically ran all over the city in olden days there used to be a tunnel beneath a reales bus a maze underground passageways probably stretched as far as a the edge of a city and then had a valid way even across the river and this one here we haven't fully on earth yet have dug almost ten meters deep and there's still no end in sight and we need to it . but that's going vaults children are painting these young artists who are born during the height of the georgian a certain turmoil only in the past three years have they finally begun giving in pace. just. destroying features

a park with children hanging out and quiet. and the sun is shining. and i've been to philly it's just it's cheerful. so nobody is troubled there. everything is bright and colorful. i'm drawing my brother and myself we're all out in our courtyard and skill involved playing together but i wanted to help write a callus because i do. want to see seen vatican fast so i've done up my painting i'd like to be like pakis. chicana spent days hiding the basements germ of truth sound from the nato attack on skin bob now chapin sutton city what she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world.

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european stocks continuing to slide. three years after georgia a least its war machine to try and seize the south the setio we meet those who bear the scars of the conflict here and how they're rebuilding their lives. and rampant looting and rioting spreads in north london dozens of officers are injured trying to contain what started as a peaceful protest against the fatal police shooting of a man. from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's two pm here in the russian capital we begin with asian stocks which plummeted on monday following a rocky trading session.