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 i have many of my brothers. i have to. have some. but i prefer to come here because i believe that there is a big prospectus in there. maybe in the coming tween teams not now. many syrians like i came to this village in search of peace they and other local people helping rebuild the house. people here told me that this house is

and he can you accept to live here. for me this is not the end of the war. so i asked his wife to stay for a while with the children in a rented flat and tell him he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we told this in syria must leave us in a green facility in syria would you like me to post lots. 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 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. and this is my lever one door. or some bomb didn't

explosion it's my kitchen door broke windows broke 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's trying to. trying to protect their families. her house her. career her syria and everything and. 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 tonight so we also crying all over town

was crying. not easy for you. so far good. six months ago husband a small house in a leaky village but 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. nearing land. 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 i don't like leaving american people believe an american maybe freedom and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying syria and not so you don't believe hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what. by buying my friend you will always believe that god maybe will give us a better life because we are seeing god with people who want to complete our life.

feels like a blow to living in his younger siblings house unlike his brother he had to go to the land of their ancestors he and his wife have become accustomed to this secular city life. who see what's happening to. people all just lights and just killing each other nobody knows what to do with and i left my home go i left my job left my friends some family also still there we left our whole life.

yet you. see as nine year old daughter can speak. 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 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 yet now they're learning two languages at a time from scratch. and he turn to preserve national culture and for everyday communication knowing russian will help them achieve a higher education and

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 . when my daughter. told me that the school is big and i'm fraid from the school it's big and. it's just crying every night i don't want to go to school tomorrow. is. 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. like. anything. i

love and. all the time. brides and grooms joined in the islam and the folk dance the young women's graceful movements symbolize modesty submission and the beauty of the caucasus role is to demonstrate to people strength and dignity. to all of the countries where the diaspora settled 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. i ten years ago visited my cup from syria there was a folk culture festival taking place in the capital at the time dream performing

folk songs on stage and forging a professor. career as a singer because her singing ambitions had failed back home in damascus bill had instead gone to university to study graphics. when war broke out in syria we decided to move to. russia was our choice what we had thought of going to the land of our ancestors before but who aren't completely resolved to go and 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 her singing style and her voice she had no special training but when she said she wanted join us we weren't surprised we were very glad to help her and to help her make a living. because but is an economic graduate but most of the

syrian men who had to save their families from the horrors of war in my corp the only job he could find was an odd job 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. for me creation. his wife and son playing in a plot pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they'll

last no longer than six months. they left behind a big house in damascus but he can sell it as long as the war continues. you know i started all this for the church on my husband started becoming like he was in good french arabic and it's actually it's didn't benefit us it was we learned what war. because we don't all relaxing the russian language. with one lung. on someone or. someone. who. own they offered a home and we don't have to pay our rent or for serving for us. to see what's wrong with killings little man being recalled for feel. oh how close it's all. and seen.

a few days ago it's it was like. almost song war. but today when you actually it was a surprise me because when i moved from the window i saw everything why knowing. who. i was for my children to live in peace away from war they will learn russian and they will go to school we go to university. they will become russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time and we.

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for says my grandfather was among those driven from the country after the 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 yet 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. 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's 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 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 for them. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind in syria was several members of their 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 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 and every time she hears odd noises she

probably thinks it's war and she's afraid the noises scare her. little subsidize mother works in this 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 cools on nuffin a toast and mommy and daddy. buddy into 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

a deacon on it but 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 are 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 for me to. talk about.

how. i never believe i leave for my two three hypersphere to die. my mom diffused because it showed also i how. you would resist are you with a brother in syria i can't see you. so that in winter you please move down there you. see out of me you are you know your heart of the water.

because it was sylvia. is it me. that think this self was it let's listen i want the votes to die because i want to see my friends on my phone it is until i love and everyone because i don't like this. when i listen to it says i want to to make my lovely country seem to be. lighter. to. be food so. peaceful you know starting from the beginning this is what makes me feel lost i

mean it's not the place to place a very much i like the area i don't feel strange i find a lot of people don't speak my native language if nothing lives and i although they learn some. of. 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 called 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 learn must do it too. good life as a. cd i. really.

want to. hear. you love you. you know i like relieved because there is a cure that. you'll feel good and all busy. problem in the trough. i don't want to come back to syria you know i want to stay here. i think i will go back soon i will convince them to come back soon i still can't have great dreams here because my heart's still and see. the sea. my own pockets and i like you because you can drive me nuts it's really hard to

drive and to start really when you still don't sound good job to buy it with a car like in syria. leak. the teeth. actually look like their sons. were. already seeing. when they can't believe the old their families. didn't really. on two minds we are on the last. plane to. leave this

town series. very very much on her mind. this is the first time but two john has brought the children here to let them see their new. plan to move the family from town after a month or so when weather is warmer. to our room and this is true. but from my home and listen. to each other you see a lot of windows. all. we will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like a time off from city life from working at the office is who you

work with close to nature. this is who try this experience we will see maybe we just. go to bed toilets going to be here. here. commando style buds and what's going to be here my mother that shut the door and don't touch anything there mama why is it just a hole oh that's how it's going to be. come here. it's an opportunity to live 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 a piece of four feet. or. these and really these are. all living in peace this is a big action and all of life so it is not easy to change and to redo it in

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carnage in damascus at least thirteen people have been killed and dozens wounded in a huge car bomb explosion and spreading terror and panic in the syrian capital. they would prefer a year of new figures show eighty thousand jobs lost across the crisis in the space

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