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my name is a. i am from syria and i head toward the sea of. war ends just like i'm going to see my friends and my family. my name is to show them i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. why name me at the same ones or something i'm coming to russia. leave here because that is why all that on. my name is it or not i risk to come back to the lovely country window would we say. my name is osama.
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i'm planning to stay in russia too bad your 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 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 alternative. i have to go to cannes and i have some. but i prefer to come
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here because i believe that there is a big prospectus in the economy here maybe in the coming twenty s. not now. many syrians like i 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. 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 in town 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 just to go lots. we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria nancy had everything she could
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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 i'm. just my lever one. or sound bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me me me and banks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying
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to protect her closely. her house there. they are there syria and yemen and syria too 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 for. not easy for you to forget. your. six months ago. a small house in a dk 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
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now they have to eat their meals in shifts the table isn't big enough to accommodate a family of thirteen. you know. 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 i don't like leaving that american people believe an american may be 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
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people are not doing. what. my mind and my foreign how do we always believe that god maybe will give us. cause we are seeing god with people who want. to live. feels like a blow to living in his younger siblings house unlike his brother he had no strong
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desire to go to the land of their ancestors he and his wife have become accustomed to this city life. to see what's happening the. people just light and just killing each other nobody knows why i love food it's 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 your. 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
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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 they'll need the tongue 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 of 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 came to the school 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
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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 don't have a choice i have a choice. like this war. to work or anything. i love and. all the time you. brides and grooms join in the islam and the 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. to all of the
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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 a folk culture festival taking place in the capital at the time since then she. dreamed of 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. when war broke out in syria we decided to move again. russia was our choice of course we had thought of going to the land of our ancestors before but
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who aren't completely resolved to go until the very start of the war before it could reach our home into mass. 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 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. 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 to.
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see if i'm not. doing my best to. push and i like. i was walking as finance minister. for immigration. his wife and some just staying at michael plus the sum 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 bitch or. my husband started economy he knows english french arabic and it's actually didn't benefit us because we learned what
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war. because we don't or we lacking the russian language you. want and what. 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 would kill. every culture feel. oh how close. we were. and. few days ago it's it was like. almost song. what to do. actually it was a surprise me because when i looked from the window i saw everything why.
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would. 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. they will become russian citizens i think we will do. it some other time. wealthy british stock. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy
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with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our welcome to teal one on air you can feel at home. there are three choices in life the first is to work in a mckillop live on a miserable way like a slave. for a second just to jump the wall and catch the american dream. most of their cars and lose their lives. just to become a number of an organisation and get inside the drug trade. to buy something cool never forget.
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a. book with a smile did it by paid for what i've done i would never stop a. yes or soldiers of the persevering if there's something new. so you. lose. if you
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lose or you force to. see 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. all in all. of. us who 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 an 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 idea. was 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 care see 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. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind in syria was several members of the large
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extended family 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 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.
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daddy into their own body in the every day she says mother body in the body in 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 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 run of the old ibrahim brothers wife makes
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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 home of new research or to give out. happy. i never knew i leave for my two three hypersphere to die. my mom to fuse because it could also i how. you would resist and you would have never been seen here i can't see you. didn't when do you please move during the. three out of me you out in that i know
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you are the being the are. because it was c.b.s. . that think this self was it with every song i want the votes today because i want to see my friends and my family's. lawyer love and everyone because i don't have a lot of things like this.
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when i do that says i want to to make forward my lovely country seem to be. there see the light. to turn susie had before it was. peaceful 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 it's nothing less and i already learned some. of what you know. but. 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
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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 the children must so there must. it to leave the good life. in syria a little. bit you. want to. love you. you know i like relieved because there is a cure what. 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.
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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 in syria. still see. my own pride still and i like you because you can drive like nothing it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still don't sound good job to buy a good car like in syria. eat. the teeth.
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actually look for signs. of learning. to see. when they can't believe still there and. we will miss it indifferently. the termites we are on the last stand point. this sounds serious. very very much they are mine. this is the first time but 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. you can see our room and this is true. but from my home and obviously.
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as 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. this will try this experience we will see maybe we just. go to the toilets going to be here. here. among the 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 or if.
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pressure is made to come through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's small as a beast. of four feet pull off an illusion 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 really do it if you use i thought this action you can do it to one year older. than reality.
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i think going down of the sun and good morning we will remember them we will. every detail. every piece of metal.
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