tv Documentary RT April 29, 2013 9:29am-10:00am EDT
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i like a war. just like i'm going to see my friends on my. my name is to show. i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. ones are somehow all coming to. leave here because why all. my name is it or not to come back to the lovely country window would we. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life. until
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just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building a new house in a small village in a 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 war has brought a twist of fate. to return to his ancestral home. but i prefer to kim here because i believe the big. you may be in the coming twenty s. not now. many syrians came to this village in search of peace and other local people helping rebuild the house. the
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house is empty can you accept to live here. for me this is not the war. was 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 lead us to be a green facility in syria we like to do to this to lots of fellows who we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not it's a bridge. in syria none so you had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten 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 garage. and
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this is my lever one door. or some bomb didn't explosion was my kitchen door broke the windows are broken the very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me me me and banks came. the syrian woman is a hero. she is trying to. trying to protect their families. their home. her house her. hair her syria and everything and she had to under control about everything
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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 so it's not easy for you to forget. you know or. to go see you. six months ago. a small house in a village he brought 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. you know. i
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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 marcelo. like leaving the american people believe america may be freed and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying. nazi beyond belief hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what. my mind my friend 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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he. 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 light and just killing each other nobody knows why. i left my house though i left my job
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my friends some family also still there we left our whole life. yet you. see his nine year old daughter can speak no the russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand her. 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 the two came from syria several months ago the language barrier prevents them from learning a standard curriculum and so a special classrooms been set aside for them now they're learning two languages at
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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 a deep because the older generation kept their mother tongue alive within the family younger parents though never suspected that the children would ever need to know their ancestral language until war broke out. 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. monza owned a 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 i need to. know i
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don't have a choice i have a choice like this war. to work or anything. and . all the time. from here. brides and grooms join in the islam and the dougie folk dance the young women's graceful movements symbolize modesty submission and the beauty of the caucasus the men's role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity well. being to all of the countries where the id 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
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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 of performing. folk songs on stage and forging a professional career as a singer because their singing ambitions had failed back home in damascus a bill had instead gone to university to study graphics. when war broke out and syria decided to move again. russia was our choice of course 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 two thousand. 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
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training but when she said she wanted join us we weren't surprised we were very glad to have her make a living. i be as husband is an economics graduate but like most of the syrian men who had to save the families from the horrors of war my corp the only job he could it was an old man working on a construction site. we don't want to live in a village we want to stay here because there are more job opportunities i need to start studying again to. see if i'm not. doing my best to have as i can. push and i like. i was walking as finance manager.
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for me creation. you know what his wife and some just saying you know my cup fluff for some of pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they'll last longer than six months fay left behind a big house in damascus but he can't sell it as long as the war continues. you know i started all this for the church and my husband studied economy he knows english french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us because we learned what war. because we don't or we lack the russian language you. want and what. that offered to home and we don't have to pay our rent or or saving money for
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us we will just see what we can still. recall sure feel. oh how close. and. a few days ago it's it was like. almost some were. to do. actually it was a surprise me because when i looked from the window i saw everything why knowing. who. i was for my children to live in peace away from war they would learn russian and they were both school going to university. and they would become russian citizens i think we will do.
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for 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 where i have many close friends. oh oh oh oh oh. oh. oh sorry 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 on him up in arabic means example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. i have compiled an arabic i dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the idea. is a cordial 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 to care see people
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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 cook asian 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 the large extended family this two year old girl's mother and father still in damascus . my sister came with her daughter three months ago but she had to 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 here is loud noises she probably
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thinks it's war 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. buddy in their own body in the every day she says mother body in the body in a syria or saudia 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 or when she was a child and now trying to make some money she works as
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a seamstress. sit by keep thinking about the people who are still there and 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 older brother's 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 visit tears my sisters and my brother come to the home of the family of you. to give out. their. last.
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because it was c.v.s. . to me. that in this self was it with every song i want the votes to die because i want to see my friends and my family's lawyer love and everyone because he. liked it. when i didn't want to to make forward my lovely country seem to. make their seem like i was too suzy happy food. was. starting from the beginning this is much makes me feel lost i mean it's not the place the place
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a very much i like the area i don't feel strange i find a lot of people speak my native language speak nothing less and i already learned some russian words. want to 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 find a job not even in a big city like crescent that's why he travels to dubai to make a living but hopes that one day he'll take the children with him we have. to learn must. to leave the good life. in syria and. live here. look.
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at the looming. here. you know i like relief because there is a killer that. you feel would know all busy. problem in the trafford. i don't want to come back to syria you know i want to stay here. i think i will go back saying i will convince them to come back soon i still can't have great dreams here because my heart's still in c. . see. my own comrades and i like you because you can drive me nuts it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still don't sound
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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 and this is true. but. from. the scene. in which. you see a lot of windows. we 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. who tried this experience we
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will see maybe we just. learned that 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. come here. it's an opportunity to live in peace away from noise away from bombs away from. fighting. pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small as a piece of four feet below. for leisure in nearly fifty s. and early eighty's and they are. all living in peace this is a big action and all of them are so it is not easy to change tools to redo it in
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