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self assess the allies in the halls of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over the holiday mountains and cities built many centuries ago still retain their unique history. all to stone draco soviets goes for a job every morning. most of the sun my homelands my easy thing your streams gardens and your lines. have always made is so happening. from the hill top he can fit the sound the setting in capital of skin bow in the palm of his hand moments like this filling with inspiration for his next work.

the republic of south the city alone is in the caucasus in borders russia is in the north and georgia to the south west and east. mountains cover ninety percent of south the settlers territory which is more than a thousand meters above sea level. involved is its capital transco cation highway which connects russia to georgia and armenia runs through the city. after his morning run artist andre returns to his studio and he's 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 art was the last thing on his mind . your will that you don't have moments where i thoroughly neglected my work were especially during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life follies also changed the vilest i thought it was never going to end the chief

. uneasy relations between georgia and a set is 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 city and parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september nine hundred ninety eight which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with self a sense here. on the ninth or from august the seventh to it was the eighth of two thousand and eight georgian troops began shelling skin involved the military units were forced to leave the country as a result of the russian peacekeeping operation afterwards russia recognized self says here as an independent state.

in august two thousand and eight day ever and her young daughter has 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 as best as the bombs now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start a new house of course it's bad memory but in fact this place and this is it helped us to stay alive that he's. condor was only nine when the war broke out she was frightened and didn't show her fear in order to not upset her mother the neighbor lauer was constantly by the family's side. as georgian her greatest concern was the georgian soldiers would shoot her first because of the fact that she was living in

a settler. 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 and money providing a goal of the georgians they will stay on the streets 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. i will never forget the noise the whole time. in the room when it got closer and then we heard an explosion really it never crossed our minds but it was from a missile launcher a girl. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper with him to the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around her. branching measuring vaguely made their

implied sense of good nationally children they only store it out life actually. showed it was done. really shone in from our place so we also let some candles. conda is attending a master class in drawing as an art school and see involve the settee and painted cumberlands cover above is well known here has invited you condor 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. to groove in square during the georgian invasion shells and shrouded in old destroyed many paintings levy put it in euros bill is called the me. several brilliant works for ruins was an overbid are the four witnesses every day and with submachine guns and just riddled the paintings with bullet holes in.

all today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. the third girl you all that's a great idea to fill the picture with birds if what i'm told is that a rainbow is lots of bright colors. posters i don't see one through remember bad things south of the war. some hope for my hope that everything. it will be great i'm colorful.

bright new rooms now drawn houses in post walls involved. they have replaced the old ones that were damaged during the battle for mole to still to be repackaged almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown was almost completely destroyed. but over three years is the middle of most of the building the second floor. used to be an old and hole here. it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and two thousand relates. nothing is left except for

a concrete cost that's just nearly over and was one of the kinds of a gun has been to send the zones is for sure when you've got a server in your rules of the world for. many residents who were left homeless in two thousand and eight i'm 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 get fifteen kilometers from involved. in a signal an old house used to stand at this place it was completely destroyed during the war jonas some timber is due to bombs hit the house and tourists at heart of this. alina took shelter with the family in a trailer for two years. well

lived in this wagon was two years before the built this house forrest says that's where we live now. here we do all the household chores. a year ago pollini moved into a new two story house then it's hard for me to imagine where we would have lives if they hadn't built a new house for us. there is no peace in the village of kid yet lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the cool. little favorite place things. hopes that before long the child will forget all about them . we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from the realm plus.

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. for many years people in spain vall 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 anxious land historians call the capital itself a settler a paradise for archaeologists. but the lulu this isn't the authority and 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 town with this they were used by safety and the price was in fact as if the end fortress two thirds were the new. the tops of old

fortresses and watch towers rise from behind the mountains in every direction from involves. 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 are not have a watchtower was not considered to be a family in the seventeenth 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 or. 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.

the. towers were built and square and pyramids like. shapes with a board with every floor had a date arrow slits of the two for each wall to provide a better view this way they could shoot more precisely. this tower had a least five floors of. the wall adjusts as well as historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and monasteries. leadin me a buyer is a contributor to sells the seti is a 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 some of the we're not very many people are so scared of lizards that they panic when they see one popular belief is that lizards will bite you know ok watch my

fingers both give and there is no blood on it not even one drop of which it was one of the lizards can't bite through my skin. studies the regions for. the buzzard hovering over the river is a predatory good normally it feeds on gophers and mice but now it has a different vision and. going up with me it's a plain freshwater crab there aren't many of them out here in few know that we have them. crab sometimes have caviar here but these are young ones they most certainly don't have any you know. setian freshwater crabs are on the verge of extinction because of predators and people some eat that meat others breed them at home in aquariums. believes crabs should definitely be entered into the red book.

this is the last asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits a small area near south to set his capital the school population has drastically dropped him recently is because of the mass capture of the terreri of. them in the fall i found a pregnant female who was exhausted i. was happy in their lives when she gives birth to her young ones to 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 and mostly pets fall victim to their stings but sometimes even people are attacked flemmi ago by of suggest establishing a small nature reserve in the school peons habitat it will help protect skin

involves residence and help secure the future of an entire species of red school piano at the same time in a given day lived alongside dennis or as many years ago as of most species from that era have some of the perished in the scorpions have survived to this day as you were. to a manager of a team pia is travelling to the west of south to set here he's been invited by vinod residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive hostesses of one of the homes for past special pies in south a sense here no male can go without them. as it is you could argue sure dealing with tradition it was a certain prize the lad from potatoes with meat and cabbage that's not easy rosemary their field of the cheese and greens see it more as my senate run is with

can a chick matter like that she's a month to month wasn't over. for a set eons pies i'm old and just food it is a special dish for celebrations they make a countless number of funerals only to today the host as is prepared for a day with cheese potatoes and greens. for. its. cover. yes put them in. your young lady. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. oh do i go to get there and seen you for quite a while. i want to know oh brings. in the heart of the

pollies quickly turn brown then they take them out and both of them. i need to talk to you. come in come in. how are you doing to some is almost here it's getting warm will be making hay soon the family is getting ready to make i have to. bring some one would. have a line and freshly baked qais a pair of the table. we never turn of the pie over when you cut it. and you don't turn it around either. otherwise they say grace will turn away from you. the. thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area that i have never seen 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. and we gather well known plonks like time oregon a. lady's month old. 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 has never been any war in the gorge where people collect. the village of the goof on the contrary is right on the border between georgia and south africa. in the past it

used to take a local residents an entire day to cover the fifteen kilometers between a village. the village was in the occupation zone from nice to meet you know it's two thousand and eight three. has always been a necessity in enclaves surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages. from the georgian government police and special forces here. people living longer lives. and so. on. nowadays and now to be off can have a family business he and his son keep a nice. you know. you seem to forget every honey. is the young the break eight resells here then.

they collect the honey they collect that's right. and the lady of the house looks after chickens. living in a country in a village is no easy life. oh. they feed the chickens and help their father run the household. the logistics of the nearby affairs comes in a song called natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech boulder and oak trees as well as various species of

conifer 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. into the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where thin and what kind of milk is it that's natural melanoma it must think it's mom and i see it is looking your fingers oh yes she's really gotten used to me. by it says the cough will probably have to stay with humans now we're in a panel next to the house it has already become domesticated if it were returned to the wild it might easily fall prey to carnivores. if it is some of your people if there is a road near it was small a species of deer that live in a republic of course we're going to we also have the caspian red area or 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 and. move on to that would do well list house hears from the nineteenth century it was built by george 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 to involve archaeologists and discovered numerous tolls which sprawl the legs of the city where those underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it's still this is one of those tunnels which practically run over the city in olden days there used to be a tunnel beneath there reales but through these underground passageways probably stretched as far as a edge of the city and then headed down why even across the river on this one here

we haven't fully on earth yet we have dug almost ten meters deep and there's still no end in sight and we need to. adjust involves children a painting these young artists were born during the height of the junction a century and more only in the past three years have they finally begun giving and peace. destroying features a park with children hanging out in plain. on the sun is shining. through and i've painted fairly it's just it's cheerful. snoopy is troubled there. everything is bright in color from. my joy my brother and myself we're all out in our core jordan still involved playing to give

a book i wanted to help write economists that because i do. to see the consumers. so i'd. like to be like this. on the screen again of the smokers. involved. city which would like to see it as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world.

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