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 having. from the hill top he 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 city alone is 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 trams coke asian 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. moments where i totally neglected my work during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life also changed the vilest i thought it was

never going to end. an easy 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 a 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 south 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 today of a 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 just discussed now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start a new of course it's bad memory but in fact this basement because it helped us to stay alive. to condor 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 lauer was constantly by the family's side. georgian greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in

a setting. 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. down the street that they were shooting from this machine. 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. i will never forget the noise the whole time. and then we heard an explosion really it never crossed our minds but it was from a missing. girl who. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around. naturally maturing sickly me there in

black central initially as children they only store adult life such as. it was done. really shone in from that place so we also let some candles. conda is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in c. involve the settee and painted tom a landscape frame of his well known here has invited you conned and other talented youngsters to attend the master class today he's showing the children his own painting it's filled with bullet damage from august two thousand and eight. during the georgian invasion shells and shrapnel destroyed many paintings livvy what that image was billy's got in a bluish tortured those are all brilliant works were ruined explosion of argo the fire witnesses say that they ended 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. the third girl you will that's a great idea to fill the picture with birds of dull desert a rainbow there's lots of the bright colors. i don't want to remember bad things after the war. some of the tools i hope that. thing will be bright. and colorful.

bright new rooms now dorm houses in post-war involved. they have replaced the old ones that were damaged during the battle 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. through here this is the middle of the building the second floor. they used to be an organ hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and two thousand eight. hundred almost nothing is left except for

a concrete. was one of the convoy has been to send. some river near boulder both. 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 of. 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 it was completely destroyed here in the walls only some timber. bombs hit the house and tore it hard to fix. alina took shelter with her family in a trailer for two years. lived

in this wagon was two years before they built this house horace says that's where we're live now so here we do all the household chores. a year ago alina moved into a new two story house. it's hard for me to imagine for one would have lived if they hadn't built a new house for us. there is no peace in the village of to be yet where pollini lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the cool child alone. doles a little while those favorite place things. stood before long a child will forget all about them will.

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. you. for many years people in involved were more concerned with survival at a time when they faced a blockade and shelling with peace returned scientists also came back to the city they hope to make lots of discoveries in this land historians call the capital of south ascent a paradise for archaeologists. but the move to the. king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five of the. needless to say there are very many underground passages beneath this down. this they were used by syfy and the place was in fact the end fortress.

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 watchtowers in self-assertive. some of the family that did not have a watchtower was not considered to be a family in the seventeenth to eighteenth century believe that such a family would vanish sooner or later as a result of internal and external factors such as warsaw and vendettas. this watchtower is located not far from the town. it was built in a gorge nearby they extracted the stones for construction from the local mountains

the builders processed the rocks laid them and used egg white as mortar. towers were built and square and pyramids like she. every floor had eight arrows of the two free to provide a better view this way they could shoot more precisely. this tower had at least five floors. just 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 rare and endangered animals and will soon be published here on the rocks lizards can be spotted they creep out of the cracks to warm up in the sun. yes there were not very many people who are so scared

of lizards that they panic when they see one popular belief is that lizards will bite you ok watch my finger there's no blood on it not even wonder if it was one of the lizards can bite through my skin. studies the regions for. the buzz and hovering over the river is a predatory bird normally it feeds on. but now it has a different vision mind. it's a plain freshwater crab but there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have them. crabs sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have. the settee and freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of predators and people some eat them meat others breed them at

home in aquariums. believes crabs should definitely be entered into the red book. this is the asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits a small area near south santee has capital. population has drastically dropped in recent years because of the mass kept just a terrariums. bit in the fall i found a pregnant female. well i have been there live bearers when she gives birth to her young ones they climb on her back to feed there 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 p.m.'s habitat it will help protect skin vols residents and help secure the future of an entire species of risk opium episode even if you do know they lived alongside dinosaurs many years ago as of most species from that era have since perished about scorpions have survived to this day as you were. to a manager of a team p.f. is traveling to the west of south to set here he's been invited by vinnie dresden to want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive host ss of one of the homes per past. in south of santiago no mail can go without them. as if you skip it are you sure delivered in additionally or a certain prize amount from potatoes or the meat and cabbage. rolls leave their

field to the cheese and greens see you know more than my senator brown does with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to that i'm frozen over. for a set eons pies are more than just food it is a special dish for celebrations they make a countless number for funerals only two today the hostess is prepared three with cheese potatoes and greens. then let's put them in. their young lady new doing a good job. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. i haven't seen you for quite a while. i want to bring. in the heart of the

pies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well i need to talk to you. i mean come in. how are you doing to summer's almost here it's getting warmer will be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make a. bring someone would. have a. line and freshly baked pies a pair at the table. never turn apply over when you cut it. and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you at the. gorge thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area.

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. other well known slight time oregon a. ladies man told me. sage and even bilberries. berries and leaves we have a big selection of. 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 goot 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 a village. the village was in the occupation zone from. two thousand and eight three. days being in a city an enclave surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages of. the georgian government police and special forces here. people living you know milledge. nowadays and now to be left can have a family business he and his son keep bees. who seem to forget every honey. it is the young the vacation he sells here

and then. the rest of the bees do better they collect the honey. that's right. and the lady of the house looks after chickens. living in the country in a village is no easy life. they feed the chickens and help their father run the household. the logistical denia biafra has come to the zone called a 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. the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in and what kind of milk is it it's natural. and i see it is licking your fingers oh yes she's 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 holes. but 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 that date back several centuries. old at that will do 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 girls accommodated a jewish community center though it was very beautiful. but if the streets of the involved archaeologists have discovered numerous times holes which sprawl the length of the city where those underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it still poses one of those tunnels which practically ran all over the city in olden days there used to be a tunnel beneath every house but so these underground passageways probably

stretched as far as a edge of the city and then had a van and why even across the river on 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. cut the skin vall. children a painting these young artists were born during the height of the georgian a certain turmoil only in the past three years have they finally begun living in peace. destroying features a park with children hanging out implying. the sun is shining. through and i've painted fairly it's just it's cheerful. so nobody is troubled there. everything is bright and colorful. i'm drawing my brother

and myself we are all out in our courtyard and skill involved playing together but i wanted to help write a callus because i do. to c.c. invalid you can fast. so i've done a by painting i do like to be like paris of. calmness spend days hiding in the basements during the two thousand and eight attack i'm stunned bob now she paints her city what she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world. cluck cluck. cluck. cluck cluck. cluck

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