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off a set i remember salman's that held for the victims of the conflict russia intervened to protect its citizens fat asses pinnaces aggressively tried to rethink control of its format with out of that. special a poor the sound was south a set has had to account get the country back on track of the. self the settee allies in the heart of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over high in 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 my view seeing things in your streams gardens on your land. have always
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made us so happy and. from the hill top you can fit the south the sente and capitalist 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 and he's crammed with his work he's never been short of creative ideas except for the time his native land
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became the scene of an armed conflict back then was the last thing on his mind you know you don't have moments where i was totally neglected my work was wesley during the war because obviously i was preoccupied with other things my life follies also changed the violist i thought it was never going to end. 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 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 center. on the ninth or from august the
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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 just discussed now it seems to me that outside on the street the whole thing is going to start anew of course it's bad memory but in fact. because it helped us to stay in.
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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 lauer 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 walked 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. i will never forget the noise the whole time. on the ground and it got closer and then we heard an explosion really
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it never crossed our minds that it was from a missile launcher we don't know what to do or. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around. where she may joins a gloomy there in black pencil. and they only store adult life such joined hands. sure it was done. only shown in from that place so we also let some candles. is attending a master class in drawing at an art school in. painter. 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 bullet damage from
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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. well today the artist wants his pupils to choose the peaceful same for their drawings. to have. the full girly oh that's a great idea where fill the picture with birds dulness at a rainbow use lots of bright colors.
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will still hold i don't want to remember bad things soft on the war. some of the tools i hope that everything will be brights and colorful. bright new rooms now dorm houses in post wall street involved. they have replaced the old homes that were damaged during the ball a little to still to be repaired almost every building carries a trace of the conflict. the parliament building downtown has almost completely destroyed.
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three here this is the middle close of the building the second floor it does the as well oregon they used to be an organ hole here in washington it was very badly damaged during the military hostilities and two thousand eight. hundred for a cult. 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 of. lives in a new house in the village of to be yet fifteen kilometers from skin involved. but i'm going to see my note house used to stand at this place it was completely
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destroyed during the war the owners some timber is. bombs hit the house and tore its heart of this. 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. 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 lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the. a little
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so many years people instead involved were more concerned with somebody 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 ancient land historians call the capital of south ascent a paradise for archaeologists and the fishes himself into a corner the king gave us down its urban status seventeen hundred years ago that was in the year two hundred sixty five of the fifth avenue that needless to say there are very many underground passages beneath this down. as if they were used by . 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
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eighteenth century. it was a must to build fortifications in every village there are about five hundred watchtowers himself the center. of 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. this watchtower is located not far from the town. it was built by they extracted the stones the construction from the local mountains. processed the rocks laid them and as mortar. towers were built and square. every floor had eight.
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to provide a better view this way they could shoot. our had at least five. historians take an interest in the walls of the ancient towers and monasteries. is a contributor. red book of rare and endangered animals and published on the rocks. they creep out of the cracks. 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 one drop it was one of the lizards can bite through
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my skin. studies the regions for. the buzz and hovering over the river is a predatory. 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 both predators and people some eat them mate others breed them at home in aquariums. believes crabs should definitely be entered into the red book. this is the
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asian scorpion which is also facing extinction it inhabits a small area near south santee his capital. has drastically dropped in recent years because of that mass kept jeff a terrariums. found a pregnant female. well pins are 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 peons habitat it will help protect involves residence and help secure the future of an entire species of resco paean of a seventy minute video they lived alongside done a source many years ago most of most species from that era have since perished
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about scorpions have survived to this day as you board. to a manager but m.p.'s is travelling 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 says of one of the homes per past. in south of santiago no male can go without them. as it is if you'd argue sure in addition it was a certain prize not from potatoes or the meat and cabbage was not easy rosemary their field of the cheese and greens see it more through my center trunk as with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to them for they're no good. for a settee and surprise a mole than just food it is
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a special dish for celebrations they make a countless number for funerals only to today the hostess is prepared 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 i 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
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doing to summer's almost here it's getting warmer we'll be making hay soon for the families getting ready to make. bringing some one would. have had a line and freshly baked pies a pair at the table. never turned up by 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
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in infusions. and when you have a well known plonks like time or gone a. lady's man told me he will say jimmy 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 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
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a village. the village was in the occupation zone from. two thousand and three. always being a necessity an enclave was surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages of. the georgian government police and special forces here. people living in a home village. 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.
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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 around the house. so logistically denia biafra has come to the song 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 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.
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he took the cows home and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a. kind of milk is it its natural thing. i see it is looking your fingers oh yes she has really gotten used to me. by if 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
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the date back several centuries. old at that would do well list house hears 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 towels which sprawl the legs 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 the maze underground passageways probably stretched as far as a edge of the city and then had a sound why even across the river on this one here we haven't fully on earth yet we will have dug almost ten meters deep and there's still no end in sight and we need to.
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cut the skin vaults the children are painting these young artists were born during the height of the georgian a certain turmoil only in the past three years of they finally begun giving and pace. just. destroying features a park with children hanging out implying. the sun is shining. and i've been to philly it's just it's cheerful. so nobody has to work 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 the thing i wanted to help by to alice it because i do. to c.c. invalid you can fast food so i've done up by painting i'd like to be like paris.
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government calls a wave of sheer criminality that west has spread to battling an unbelievable unconfirmed reports that other cities are also affected authorities say a peaceful protest against the deadly police shooting of a twenty nine year old man was hijacked by troublemakers more than two hundred people have been arrested. that sinking feeling last talks deep shop late in the trading session after america's credit clinton downgrade this as he resigned as continues to wreak havoc with investors fearing easily and spain could be the next economist of think this despite president obama and european central bank trying to rush all their kids. on three years after georges atop a song for september and ceremonies are held for the victims of the conflict into being to protect its citizens that i somebody said westby tried to regain control of its former republican. as the headlines up next some because a report made the.
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