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 jog 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 capitalist involved in the palm of his hand moments like this fill him with inspiration face 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 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 your wallet and you 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 the vilest i thought it was never going to end the chief.

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 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 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 start anew 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 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. 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 it never crossed our minds that it was from a missile launcher. took a pencil and a single sheet of paper into the basement down there she drew sketches of everything around. gradually maturing vaguely made their implied central initially children the only store adult life such as. sure 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 of rebuff who's 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 shrouded in old destroyed many paintings levy what if the murals billy's got the bluish tortured those are all brilliant works for ruin the explosion of our four 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. for girl oil that's a great idea to fill the picture with birds of dull desert 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 dorm houses in post-war involved. they have

replaced the old homes 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 and two thousand and eight. was one of a kind of gun has been to send as. severing of will that they would feel.

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 was only some timber is. bombs hit the house and tore it hard to fix. family in a trailer for two years. lived in this one or two years before they built this house forrest says that's where we're live now. here with household chores.

a year ago moved into a new two story house. it's hard for me to imagine how to live if they hadn't built a new house for. 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. for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker.

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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 by syfy and the place was in fact as if 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 himself the center. of the family that 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 and 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 a gate arrow slits of the two for each wall to provide a better view this way they could shoot 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 one drop it was one of the lizards can 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 the mass kept jeff a terrariums. couple 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 there 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 red school. 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 about scorpions have survived to this day as you board.

to manage him but m.p.'s is travelling to the west of south the set he's been invited by village residents who want to participate in ecological tourism. when visitors arrive host s. is of one of the homes per 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 was not grossly their field of the cheese and greens see you know more than my senate crown is with cabbage but i like that she's a mom to 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.

in the oven let's put them in. their young lady new doing a good job. while the women make pies the homeowner meets the guests. don't seem you for quite a while. don't 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. bringing some one 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 at the. thirty kilometers north of. is one of the most beautiful places in the area that have never been any industrial facilities here there are no paved roads. list's 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. lady's mantle. sage and even bilberries. berries

and leaves we have a big selection of the. 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. always being in a city an enclave surrounded on all saw inspired georgian villages. the georgian

government the 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. who seem to forget every honey. is the young vacation he sells here and then. the rest of the bees do 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 logistics of the nearby fs come to the zone cover 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 the starving to death. of the cow foam and successfully nursed it back to health. where fit in a. kind of milk is it its natural. i see it is letting your fingers

oh yes she has really gotten used to me. by it 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 oregon. 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 this 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 which sprawl the length of the city where those underground passages lead is still a mystery. but it doesn't still pose as 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 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 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 have they finally begun living in peace. destroying features a park with children hanging out implying. the sun is shining. and i've painted fairly just hoops with its chair for. 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 to give a good to what i wanted how bright economists get because i do. to c.c. invalid you can fast so i don a by painting as you like a safety to be like paris. you come the spend days i do in the basement strand of two thousand and eight attack i'm scared bob

now chapin so i'm city which she would like to see as the most beautiful and peaceful place in the world.

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