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tv   Documentary  RT  April 30, 2013 1:29pm-2:00pm EDT

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just go to see my friend. my name is. i came here because i want. to become russian citizens. because. my name is or not. to. my name. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build a new life in russia here. until
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just a year ago i 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 caucuses one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dig he's been 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 money. i have. i have. but i prefer to come here because i believe that there is a big. you may be in the coming. now. many syrians i came to this village in search of peace they and other local people helping rebuild the house. the people here told me that this is and
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can you accept to live here and i can see it ok it's ok for me this is not the end of the war. 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 called this in syria must leave us to be a green facility in syria like me 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.
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lever one. or some bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen door broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me to make ends meet and thanks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect her closely. her house her. hair 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
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everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the time when i crying could not. well you still so far get. your. six months ago husband a small house in a dk village he bought 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 the war beginning. and the. nearing land.
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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 marcelo. like leaving america people believe an american maybe freedom and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying syria and not see me i don't believe hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what. my mind my friend you we always believe that god maybe will give us a better life because we are seeing god with people and what. i would like.
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feels like a border 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 all just life and just killing each other nobody knows why. i left my house go i left my job left my friends some family also still there we left our whole life.
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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. 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
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at a time from scratch they'll need the tongue to preserve national culture and for every day 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 . 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. of. choice
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i have a choice. like this war. to work or anything. i love and. all the time you. brides and grooms join in and to do gay folk dance the young women's graceful movements symbolize modesty submission and the beauty of the caucuses the bench role is to demonstrate the people's strength and dignity. to all of the countries where the idea. of jordan syria and turkey they've 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
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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 of before. in 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. when war broke out in syria we decided to move again the pressure 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 where we knew her singing style and her voice she had no
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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 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. as i can. push and i like. i was walking. in and.
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for me creation. his wife and sons are staying in a michael flat pays 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 was almost continuous. you know i started with less better on my husband started becoming like he knows english french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us it was we learned what war. because we don't or relaxing with the russian language. book. on someone or someone. who. own they offered a home and we don't have to pay our rent or for saving money for us or we will
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go to see what's wrong with kids will bring every culture feel. oh how close this also works. and seen. a few days ago it's it was like. almost song war. but today when you actually it was a surprising move 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 would go to school we go to university. they will become russian citizens we will do.
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it some other time.
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live.
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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. 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. i've done my star 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
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ensuring a spiritual education. i have compiled an arabic i dig a dictionary to preserve the culture and language of the very ones 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's helping to kesey people who want to learn the a degree language and at the same time themselves know the arabic language. as daughter and often keeps their family relics safe after one hundred fifty years the family has returned to where they were made cook asian craftsmen 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. the biggest treasure going to leave the area was several of the large extended family this two year old girl's mother and father are still in damascus. my sister
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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 it was 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. daddy in their own body in the every day she says mother body in the body in
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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 only 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 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 you research to give out here on the north. island. i never believe that you are you for my to this room consider to die. my mom diffused because it showed you how. you would resist and you would have never been seen here i can't see you. so that in winter you please. don't they. feel pretty out of me you are in that i know your heart of the water.
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there's a was c.v.s. . is it me. that think this self was it with every song 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 have a lot of things like this. when i use that says i want to to make forward my lovely country seem to.
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make. life i wish to turn suzy happy food. was. peaceful starting from the beginning this is what's 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 people don't speak at least my native language if nothing lives by although they learn 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 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 hopes that one day he'll take the children with him we have. to
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learn must call it to. leave the good life. in syria and. you hear. one of. the looming you. hear. you know i like relief because there is a kill it and 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 soon i will convince him 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 faults and i like you a car you can drive but nothing it's really hard to drive and to start really when you still don't tell a good job to buy it with a car like in syria. pete. pete. actually looks first on. the list. are seeing. when they can delete old they're. listed in philly.
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on termites we are on the high seas planes. leave this town syria and very very much 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. you can see our room and this is true. but from. the scene. in which. 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. try this experience we will see maybe we just. wanted the toilets going to be here and here. come on the style buds and what's going to be here moment i think 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. come here. it's an opportunity to live in peace away from noise away from homes 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 of four feet. leisure in nearly fifty's and early thirty's and they are. all living in peace this is a big action and all of life so it is nothing easy to change to redo it in a few years i thought this action you can do with one of the new reality.
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i think going down of the sun and good morning we will remember that we will.
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