to overcome to get back on track after georgian troops began to shelling their capital in august two thousand and eight stay with us for that. selfless setio lies in the heart of the caucasus between europe and asia. every day the sun rises over high mountains and cities build 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 be easy for me in your streams gardens on your land. have always made us so happy. from the hilltop you can fit the south the sente and capitalist involved in the palm of his hand moments like this fill him with inspiration faiza next work.

the republic of south a setia law 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 trans 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. you know moments where i totally neglected my work during the war because obviously

i was preoccupied with other things my life also changed the violist 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 century in parliament passed a resolution on state sovereignty in september nine hundred ninety which georgia refused to recognize since then georgia has been seeking unification with the south the set. 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 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 high dose of course it's bad memory but in fact. 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 you know they were shooting from this machine. they thought there was an abandoned house here they were sure there was no one but there were incidents when they threw grenades into the basement. and i will never forget the noise the whole time. and then we heard an explosion it never crossed our minds that 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. mancini's measuring sickly me there implies handle the initial good and they only store it out while i sat join hands. sure it was done. only shown in from that place so we also let some candles. conda is attending a master class in drawing at an art school and soon vall said he and painted tama lens cover above 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 levy will that the murals be discarding the bluish tortured also brilliant works for ruin the

distortion of our love for witnesses save the day and with submachine guns and just riddle 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 dulness at a rainbow is lots of a bright colors. i don't want to remember bad things after the war. somehow

tools i hope that. thing will be bright i'm colorful. bright new rooms now doom 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. 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 in two

thousand eight. hundred almost nothing is left except for a concrete. was one of a kind of gun has been to send. several variables that the. 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 for it was completely destroyed during the war only some timber. bombs hit the house and tore it hard to fix. family in

a trailer for two years. lived in this one for two years before they built this house forrest says that's where we live now. here with. 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. there is no peace in the village of. lives once upon a time she wouldn't even let her daughter play in the. little favorite place things. before a child will forget. this

is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo but up to talk about here an apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military according to the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas in combat the best occasion by instructs young couldn't you know and there strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and

then dressed in military fatigues. it's easy. to explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this the idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet. u.s. aid continued to flow. for many years people in skinfold more concerned with survival at a time. and they faced

a blockade and shelling. returned. back to the city. of discoveries in this land is. a paradise for 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 town. this. 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. 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 for construction from the local mountains. the rocks. and mortar. had. to provide a better view. this way they could shoot. 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 it will soon be published err 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 one drop it was one of the lizards can't bite through my skin. studies the regions for. the buzz and hovering over the river is a predator. 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 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. couple i found a pregnant female. i was going to be in their 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 given day lived alongside done a source many years ago as of most species from that era have since perished in the scorpions have survived to this day as you were.

told manager of a team p.f. is traveling to the west of south to set he's been invited by even addresses don't want to participate in ecological tourism. when does it has arrived most ss of one of the homes for past pies in south of santiago no male can go without them. as it is you could argue sure delivered in additionally or a certain prized amount from potatoes or the meat and cabbage. rolls late in a field to the cheese and greens see you know more than my center crown is with cabbage but i like that she's a mom too they don't those are no good. 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 knew doing a good job by pushing the pineal. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. hi good to be seen you for quite a while. come on in or brings. in the burning hot of the pies quickly turn brown then they take them out and butter them. well 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 a. bring someone would. have had 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 to. thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area. 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. other well known plonks like 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 gold 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. always being in

a city an enclave surrounded on all science point georgian villages. the georgian government police and special forces here. people living in the millet. nowadays and now to be left can have a family business he and his son keep bees. hussein for gathering honey. is the young vacation he sells here and then. the rest of the bees do they collect the honey. that's right. the lady of the house looks after chickens.

living in the country in a village is no easy life. oh. lord. they feed the chickens and help their father around the house. so logistically denia biafra is come to the zone her natural reserve known as the largest reserve in the south caucasus the park's flora includes beech. 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 come off the starving to death. of the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in and what kind of milk is it it's natural. i see it is looking 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 holes. 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 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 times 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 every house but the maze underground passageways probably stretched as far as a edge of the city and then had examined 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 do we need to. cut the skin vaults the children are painting these young artists who were born

during the height of the georgian a certain turmoil only in the past three years of they finally begun living in peace. 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 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 then i wanted to help write a callus because i do. i want to see see invalid you can fast. so i've done upright painting i do like a city to be like pakis. chicana spent days hiding in the basements during the two thousand and eight attack on skin bob

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