tv [untitled] March 24, 2013 11:30pm-12:00am EDT
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the mother of these twin boys. to find work. is no different to thousands of others in many former soviet republics which have experienced almost total economic collapse. has spent the past ten years working on moscow construction sites he's back in the russian capital after a week's holiday to his home country. where he just had enough time to marry his young bride. but rather than enjoying a romantic honeymoon she's joining him in moscow to get a job the couple will need all the money they can to build a home in their native land for their future children. didn't want to go to moscow but her feelings don't matter in the past all the
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important decisions were made by her parents and husband who has the final say. they didn't like the idea of going to moscow but my mother and grandfather said they must. when you first get here it's always like that. one of the couples relatives in moscow has agreed to let them stay in her rented flat for a while. to see him as the most successful family member she's worked in moscow for ten years the young couple is confident she'll help me find a job. i'll try to find someone for you. please call me if there's an opening for the girl. thanks a lot. she has russian citizenship and will soon own a house of her own outside moscow. she had needs to work hard to pay it off she's
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employed as a cleaner in three different places they have a book most of the people working here are my fellow countrymen who have no place to live and asked me for shelter i help them and they help me by building a house i don't pay anyone for construction work i just pay for the building materials. it took a long time for has he had to decide to sell her house back home but she did it for the sake of her children their motherland is where you feel the best. you know is back in stone the twin boys is unless he is lost so their mother nearly two years ago their grandmother takes care of them she wants the boys to learn to take pride in their homeland while they're still young they were born in summer count the grand capitol of time a lame temple and a mecca for scholars of the medieval orient. today only ancient building serves as a reminder of the city's former grandeur industries at
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a standstill and most of us adults now work in russia. i often wonder whether a loving mother would abandon her children like that i ask myself whether i did the right thing when i abandon my own children but then the soul that i'm doing something for them sets my mind at rest they tell me come here as soon as you can win miss you so much i try to comfort them i say. be patient i'll just book here a little longer and then we'll all be together. in most good works is a nanny raising another family's children. the twins mother has even had her name changed by her employers the kids find it hard to say they call her rosa instead just knows or lives in someone else's flat far away from her own children.
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you get so tired that you can't even think about your own family i just forgot about it because i'm simply exhausted. after her husband left me out came to russia where she found work and started a new family so then she had four children to look after. a clear. you've come here to make some money what's your dream what do you want we want to build a house there into judas done yes we're also want to have kids. what do you worry about. i'm afraid my husband might leave me. i was very worried that i could lose my job so i even went to work on saturdays and sundays and it was that bad. though
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a trained school teacher because he had had to work as an unskilled laborer and spent the night on the construction site. those were very hard times you know sometimes i even felt i didn't want to live anymore. but then i thought about my children. and how we'd be dead if i didn't get back on my feet. there's not even had arsenic within reach of things really went that you. know those hard times are behind to cause the upsets husband has even sent her a friend request on a social networking site. should i accept the friend request or not now absolutely yes yeah let him see how far you've come. this yes i'm very pretty yes and show him how much of a mistake it was terrific to have grown strong ever since then i'm no longer
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afraid of losing my job like i did before. until recently it seemed that central asia traditional ways of life would never change. the range the marriages and children would wed for life each family had at least four children women kept the house in order while men with the breadwinners initially only men would go to russia or in search of employment but many of them stop sending money back home they found new wives and started families and then you home the wives they left behind had to go to russia to support their children. the women from other countries have better chances of finding a job in russia than the men companies and wealthy families are only too keen to take them on as cleaners most of the women work long hours because they're employed
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illegally they're deprived of all employment rights. are you looking for fights among the woman who works with a daughter yes yes. come to a vegetable market on the outskirts of moscow to visit her friend for three months . she hasn't been able to reach her for two weeks and trust me i know she's not well ten years ago they lived together back in their lives were very similar both husbands had abandoned them and the children both women left their homeland to find work. and first she gave us a helping hand and she helped me find a job for my daughter. my son and i were working at a construction site. fatima was lucky she met a man in moscow and had two more children twin boys but then life took
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a turn for the worse she was alone again with only her teenage daughters to help. girls don't go to school ever since they came to moscow. the older daughter looks after the children. and the younger one she wanted to resume study it's good because of our mothers or help. the girls have no time for school the second daughter works with her mother while the eldest looks after the young children it's not clear why their mother left her country ten years ago or if she really did so for the sake of her children. can't find a friend nobody knows where she is how easy it has been to her home only once before and doesn't remember the exact address. all these buildings look the same years i can't figure out which one i'm looking for.
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this boy has always been known to his classmates is colia a common russian name but his real name is called bun. i was called could a bun by my parents because i was born during the muslim holiday of could've gone by a rum but here i want to be called colia in school there are some kids who would tease and laugh at me if i went by my real name. tells everybody that he was born here but his mother actually brought him to mosco with the age of four but kolya tries to figure out about.
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his upset that kolya has forgotten all about his roots for the first time in ten years she's taken a holiday to celebrate her sister's birthday home and she's taken colyer along to show him the country where he was born. he's this city has changed so much in ten years it's beautiful now. yet i expected to turn up and find a dirty. so. is there a shopping mall here can we get a chicken burger. i like to meet friends on the other soon do you remember them. well a little bit. later. are you going to talk to them. look
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over this ceremony. performed each time the baby is put to bed for the first two weeks of its life. and even to use to ensure that the baby grows up to be a healthy and happy adult. as one of the most respected women in the city she's the great grandmother and grandmother . was a teacher of the it was. more than forty years the husband was a hero of the soviet union. the couple had twelve children of their own. two boys. were regarded as a family and featured in many documentaries traditionally married couples have large families but. children few of them receive
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a higher education. the whole family tried to talk shows around with going to russia only one forty grandchildren had ever gone abroad for a better life before but she was determined not to. live off her family and. i said to her remember your country is your mother and a foreign land is your stepmother. for the first time in two years knows employers in moscow have allowed to go home for a week for medical treatment. this new season the waiting was just too much i didn't get enough sleep i was drowsy when i stumbled down the staircase i fell down and hurt my head back. when does the plane arrive. you should be at four o'clock. yet i know they
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didn't go to school today they're waiting for you. when the twin boys learned that their mother was coming tomorrow they were so excited they could barely do their homework. was just coming here and she won't go back she's seen and worked enough i've already found a job for her here. meanwhile how some of arrived at the native village in tajikistan. hasn't been here for nearly ten years she's been working in moscow all the time. at first she simply wanted to survive but then she started earning money for the children's education after that she started saving to build a house in her home village the residents greeted with a hero's welcome. when i knew there was this is your friend no he said korea
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letters korea. do you remember playing with korea. it was a full one remember no no he does not know you does it on your problem how come you remember him are you older i think he was when were you born. and that are your year older you must remember him. i knew quite. well. but i remember a quote of yours for you that he doesn't know corny doesn't know couldn't buy that cornish woman. but he was born of three minutes past midnight when we were celebrating the holy cross of zero one one by and he had to be given the name corben because he's a boy i'll give him the name do you think ally would be angry for call him call yet anyway we called him put it on but others don't we can't do anything about it.
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this is how you do it no no like this. for the first time in his life doesn't feel ashamed of his roots he's happy to be cooled by his true name. on. there are many children around here they're all good natured i wish you'd stay here for good although you understand sometimes what we say to him because he responds although he answers in russian you can also speak our language. the twins mother was arriving late took some account. a flight from moscow it was delayed the children to shine because they haven't seen their mother for such a long time.
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what's the matter to your mother they're shy in front of their own mother. they probably resent me because i've been away for such a long time they were just little kids when they left. me. this is an unusual morning for chef knows a one she's preparing breakfast for her own children in her own flat her mother both the apartment with the money knows a scent from mosco she hopes that her daughter will now stay here for good. children say don't go away you've got what you wanted to have don't go away now i say she won't go away any more but she still uncertain i'd like to work a bit longer. if you stay here you'll have
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a job i've already made arrangements. but knows a cult possibly and enough money to meet all honey to time so far she's been working to feed and clothe the twins and buy toys for them then she'll need money for their education and then their weddings. just knows his parents always told her where she should work and live and who she should marry when she chose to go to moscow to look for a job it was the first decision she made by herself. and seamstresses salary was barely enough to buy food later just moser found a job for her husband to. force her to get married against her well i wanted her to have children yes i was forced to get married. it's ok you wouldn't have found a better husband anyway they said i wouldn't find a better husband if you don't marry him you have neither husband nor kids.
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meanwhile see i decided to take advantage of her stay in touch it is done to look closely at the tajik relatives in the hope of spotting a bright for a second so. if we take her to the contest she was sure to be miss russia is it enough for married. i've come to talk it over and ask your opinion considering that we're family was. no get around model my husband was my own choice and my mother approved of it. i'm not against letting alex choose somebody to their liking. you know how things are done here but i won't mind if they decide themselves i don't want to interfere maybe that will match each other who knows. where maybe i need to tell your son to come here to look at them through right. to have an guinness when he has right.
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he must win her heart first here. right now that is right in the yellow that look real and here's a future bride. five years of age seventy seven but i've also got an eight. on. the week long holiday at home has flown by. didn't even have enough time to visit all the friends and family as local custom dictates the all of the guests are given a noisy sendoff with music and dance. but there'll be no dancing and most of the people who come here to watch don't get time off even during national holidays. it's an important occasion for hosea today the second son has returned home from the. only. little soldier are you cold oh it's wonderful to see you we've all been waiting for you this is it
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isn't your. papa was. my son has been discharged. it's such a pity we aren't in our place otherwise the whole family would be here she would be fifty at least you'd be like go letting. go and we'd slaughter a lamb. there's a friend of my son's a thought to the soldier. the next day they go to a shopping center just to have a look at planning to buy anything the family comes here each weekend. life is my favorite. i really like it i see it in my dream. will we ever be able to buy it yes we will and as soon as we move into the house.
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i adore wife because it looks like a bright future for me. i want everything in our flat to be whites. no that shows there is spending a week off in her native city of some account she wants to be with her children as much as possible she hasn't made up her mind yet whether she'll go back to earn money for her kids' future by looking after someone else's children in russia or if it's more important to stay here with the children during the early years. or. i've told her a thousand times she can get plenty of work here. her children are here. it was. my.
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pride in showing pictures of her older children. lives in the states she graduated from the university of tourism in management. new york. goes to beijing's university of technology even an extra in a recent jackie chan film. and i want the children to keep on moving forward no rest no stopping always going forward i've got to tell you i want them to win over moscow and win over other cities to. what i want what's my dream well i hope that they'll be successful. for you then i want them to have more luck in life than i did. my job tomorrow.
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laboratory kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach me the creation of life should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog. i'm in so i can only use city in europe on a host of the twenty fourteen winter the pick. c. a. tsotsi. it's so true.
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