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just go to see my friends on my c.v. . my name is to show. i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. brought home ones or similar i'm coming to russia to. leave here because why all on. my name is it or not to come back to the lovely country when the war do we in. 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
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a new house in a small village in the tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucuses one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dig 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. i have some. but i prefer to come here because i believe that there is a big prospectus in the economy. maybe 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. people here told me that this
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house is empty can you accept to live here. for me this is not the end of the war. asked his wife to stay for a while with their children in a rented flat until he didn't want them to be put off by living in an unfinished house. we called this in syria must leave us to be a green facility in syria to be likely to list 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 it's like.
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this my leave room. or some bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen. broke windows broke the very sad because this is the only channel when dreams me me me me me and banks came. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect her probably. her house there. they are there syria and iran and syria too under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save
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everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the time what i crying for is not. but you still so far get. your. six months ago husband. 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 my child. like leaving american people believe america and maybe freedom 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. might or might for. you we always believe that god maybe will give us a better life because we are seeing god with people who want. our life.
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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 to. people just light and just killing each other nobody knows what. i left my home go i left my job left my friends some family also still there we left our whole life.
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yes yes your. 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 too 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
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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 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 the people. just crying every night i don't want to go to school tomorrow. mum's 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 don't have a choice i have a choice all your life this war. or work or anything.
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my home. i love. you. 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 caucuses 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 of great culture and. i ten years ago visited my cup from syria there was
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a folk culture festival taking place in the capital at the time since then she has dreamed of the. forming 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. but. when war broke out in syria we decided to move to. russia was our choices 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 training but when she said she wanted join us we weren't surprised we were very
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glad to help her and to help her make a living. 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 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. for the creation. his wife
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and sons are staying in a michael flood. the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they are 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 better on my husband started becoming make a noise in glass french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us because we learned what war. because we don't already lacking the russian language. with one lung. on someone or. someone. who shot all our. own they offered a home we don't have to pay our rent or for serving money for us
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we will go there to see what's wrong with killings little man being recalled short field. oh how close this also works. and seen. a few days ago it's it was like scream. almost song or. what to do when you actually it was a surprising is when i moved from the window i saw everything why it was snowing. and who. i want 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 on week.
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welcome to teal one i hear you can feel it home. there are three choices in life the first is to work in a mccullough go to live on a miserable way like a slave. for
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a second just to jump the wall and catch the american dream because most of it. and lose their lives or. the other choice just as they come on number one organisation and get inside the drug trade. to buy something for never forget. a. local celebrity who did it by paid for what i've done that would never stop a. cold
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. i think going down of the sun and good morning we will remember them we will be out there.
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international airport in the very heart of moscow. for he said 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. now. i've done most are 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
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a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the addict. 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 your case the people who want to learn the a degree 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 treasury 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
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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 cools on enough in 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. by.
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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 and 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 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
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visit tears my sisters and my brother come to the home of the family of new research or to give out. their. last. i never believed i knew for my two three hypersphere to die. my mom diffused because it was so i how. you would resist and you would have never been seen here i can't see you there. so that in winter you please move during the. free out of me you are in there i know your heart of the water.
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because it was c.v.s. . to me i think 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 i don't like this. when i don't says i want to to make my lovely country seem to be.
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like i was to turn suzy out before it was. you know starting from the beginning this is what makes me feel lost i mean it's not the place the place a very much i like the area i don't feel strange i find a lot of people don't speak at least my native language if nothing lives and i already learned some. of 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 find a job not even in a big city like that's why he travels to do but i can living but i know hopes that one day he'll take the children with him we have to learn must do it to
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leave would be. life. in syria. the. little. you love looming. here. you know i like relieved because there is a cure that. you feel good and all busy. problem in the preferred. 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
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can't have great dreams here because my heart's still in syria. still 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 good job to buy it with a car like in syria. pete. pete. leeds luck first and. learning. to see. when they can release older. missed it entirely.
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on two minds we are on the last. lines around. this town series. are you time or they are mine. this is the first time the two john 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. this is not our room and this is true. but from. the same. thing as you see a lot of windows. all. we
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will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like time off from city life from working at the office is who you work with close to nature. experience we will see maybe we just. got toilets going to be here. here. commander style buds and what's going to be here my mother that shut the door and don't touch anything there are no lines or just a hole oh that's how it's going to be. 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
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syria it's more like pieces will feel relieved. 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 nothing easy to change it all to redo it in a few years i thought this action you can do with one woman. and we are. to speak your language just click click programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world's hot spots the v.o.i.p.
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