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my name is muhammad i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. my name is a. i'm from syria and i did the war in syria i. just i don't go to see my friends and my family. my name is to show. i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. why name. and where i am ones are similar i'll coming to russia. leave here because this is
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why all that on. my name is it or not to come back to the lovely country when would we see. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia to build a new life. until just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building a new house in a small village in the tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucasus one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dog is. sent to turkey jordan syria and other countries in the middle east now
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war has brought a twist of fate. to return to his ancestral home. but i prefer to come here because i believe the big. maybe in the coming tween now. many syrians came to this village in search of peace and other local people helping rebuild the house. people here told me that this house is and he can you accept to live here. this is not war. asked his wife to stay for a while with their children in a rented flat in town he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we pulled this in syria must leave us maybe it means us to be in
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syria like richard lots so we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking golden in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car carriage. and this my lever one door. or some bomb didn't explosion it was my kitchen door broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me can be and my scheme.
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is a hero. she is trying to. trying to protect their families. her husband there. they are there syria and iran and syria to under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the time when i crying. it's not easy for you to forget. you are. to go see.
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six months ago husband small house in a leaky village. his parents to their ancestors land in russia three months later his elder brother came from damascus with his wife and their four children now they have to eat their meals in shifts the table isn't big enough to accommodate a family of thirteen. nearing la. i must leave from there my wife living in america i want to go to. visit but america said no visa but. no problem for me for my child. like leaving america people believe in magic and maybe freedom
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and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying syria and not syria we don't believe hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what now my mind and my friends do we always believe that god maybe will give us a better life because we are seeing god with people and what.
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feels like a blow to living in his younger siblings house unlike his brother he had no strong desire to go to the land of their ancestors he and his wife have become accustomed to this city life. who see what's happening the. people just fight and killing each other nobody knows why. i left my house go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole life. yeah yes you see is nine year old daughter can speak. russian
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she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand. the adaptation for her was more difficult then for the others she had a hard time kept to herself and said nothing in our language she would simply sit in silence. to study with older children they two came from syria several months ago the language barrier prevents them from learning a standard curriculum and so a special classroom has been set aside for them now they're learning two languages at a time from scratch. to preserve national culture and for everyday communication knowing russian will help them achieve a higher education and find a good job in the future. to parents speak because the older generation kept their mother tongue alive within the family younger parents though never suspected that their children would ever need to know their ancestral language until war broke out
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. when my daughter. told me that the school is big and i'm fraid from the school it's big and the people. just crying every night i don't want to go to school tomorrow. business in syria a logistics company dealing with international commodity deliveries three months before the war began he built a small factory making construction blocks. the. choice i have a choice. to work anything. i love and. all the time.
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brides and grooms join in the islam and. it's the young women's graceful movement symbolized modesty submission and the beauty of the caucuses the men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity. to all of the countries where the diaspora settles jordan syria and turkey they have mostly assimilated with the arab and turkish cultures our performances were discovery the dancers realized that they were really representing a great nation and a great culture and. i ten years ago visited my cup from syria there was a folk culture festival taking place in the capital at the time since then she has dreamed. performing folk songs on stage and forging a professional career as a singer because her singing ambitions had failed back home in damascus bill had instead gone to university to study graphics.
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when war broke out in syria we decided to move to again. russia was our choice we had thought of going to the land of our ancestors before but who aren't completely resolved to go until the very start of the war before it could reach our home into mask. the first time we knew about a beer was during a folk music festival we knew her singing style and her voice she had no special trying to join us we weren't surprised we were very glad to help her and to help her make a living. i believe husband is an economics graduate but like most of the syrian men who had to save their families from the horrors of war he added my corp the only job he could find was an odd job man working on a construction site. we don't want to live
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in a village we want to stay here because there are more job opportunities i need to start studying again too. i'm not. doing my best to. push and i like. i was walking as finance manager. for the creation. his wife and some just staying at michael flood for some of pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they'll last longer than six months for a big house in damascus but he can sell it as long as the war continues. you know i started all this that which are. my husband started economy he knows english french
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arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us it was we learned what war. because we don't all relax the russian language. on someone. they offered a home we don't have to pay our rent or for saving money for us or we will go to see what's wrong with things we'll maybe. feel. and. it was like. almost saw. what to do. actually it was
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a surprising because when i looked from the window i saw everything why it was snowing. who. i want for my children to live in peace away from war they would learn russian and they would go to school go to university. and they would become russian citizens i think we will do so. it's a matter of time. download the official application. language stream policy and enjoy your favorite.
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old free broadcast quality video for your project for free media party dot com. free said my grandfather was among those driven from the country after caucasian war now we are returning i'm happy but also worried about what's happening in syria it's where i was born and why how many close friends. spent a lifetime working as a teacher in syria he was even a school principal when he arrived eight months ago the local council of elders asked him to be. a big example to follow there entrusted with ensuring
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a spiritual education. compiled an diggy dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the idea. he finished at the same time as the war in syria started that's why we weren't able to do more than three installments he is helping people who want to learn the language and at the same time themselves know the arabic language. as daughter. keeps their family relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made. craftsman produced all of these items by hand. everything we have is there all of our houses are there we didn't sell anything we brought nothing except. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind in syria was several members of their large extended family two year old girl's mother and father still in damascus.
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my sister came with her daughter three months ago but she had to go back to syria because she has a job and her husband's family is there she wants to help them come here her daughter is still with me she's scared every time she hears loud noises she probably thinks it's war and she's afraid the noises scare her. mother works in the syrian section of the united nations visas are not as easy to come by these days nobody knows how long they may have to wait the couple only see their daughter by skype the line is usually dead by day and by night for a little girl is fast asleep now the toddler often calls on nuffin and her husband mommy and daddy. there were nobody in the every day she says mother body in the body in
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a syria or syria in arabic. but. by. when she was in syria nuffin was a primary school teacher a mother and grandmother taught her how to embroider traditional the deacon on the boats when she was a child now trying to make some money she works as a seamstress. sit by keep thinking about the people who are still there i think about my relatives her mother and her father they're still there they're all still there. very few people could come here. my darling my sweetie how are you there how my sisters and i think ok i wish you good health. welcomes them renner the old ibrahim brothers wife makes a point of calling her mother in damascus every day today is a special occasion because it's mother's day in syria in this day and usually we
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visit tears my sisters and my brother come to the home of the for me. to give out. their. last. name. and. i never leave you i leave for my two dream hypersphere to die. my mom would refuse because it showed you how. you would resist and you would have been over. there. to get in when do you please move down there you. see out of me you out in that i know your heart of the water.
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because it was c.b.s. . was it the army. that think this self was it let's listen i want the votes today because i want to see my friends and my family's. lawyer love and everyone. liked it. when i was it says i want to to make ford my lovely country seem to be
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she is she. here she is like i was to turn susie abby food. was. you know starting from the beginning this is much makes me feel lost i mean it's not the place the place a very much. i find a lot of people don't speak at least my native language if nothing less and i already learned some russian words. so what you know. my eldest brother doesn't feel ready for a life in the countryside he works on a construction site like his brother. his consulting experience in i.t. and telecommunications spends twenty yes but because he's unable to speak russian he can't find a job not even in a big city like crescent that's why he travels to dubai to make a living but i hope that one day he'll take the children with him we have. to
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learn must do it to leave the good life as a new you. in city i live. in. the lunar new. year. you know i like relieved because there is a cure with it and you'll feel good you know all busy in your problem in the trafford. i don't want to come back to theatre you know all i want to hear. i think i will go back soon i will convince him to come back soon i still can't have great dreams here because my heart's still and see. the sea.
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my our pockets and i like you a car you can drive nothing but it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still don't sound good job to buy it with a car like in syria. and. eat. the. leaves lump first and. learning. to see. what they can't believe the old there. we didn't really. seem.
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to mind. we are on the last. lines around. this town series and very very much they are mine. this is the first time the two zhang has brought the children here to let them see their new home. they plan to move the family from town after a month or so when the weather is warmer. but our room this is simply this is the book from my home. to see. each other you see a lot of windows. we
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will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like time off from city life from working at the offices who you work with close to nature. this is who tried this experience we will see maybe we just. wanted the toilets going to be here. here. commander style bods and what's going to be here moment i think that shut the door and don't touch anything there are no wiser just a whole oh that's how it's going to be. coming. it's an opportunity to work in peace away from noise away from home away from. fighting. pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small as
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