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my name is. i am from syria and i did the war in syria i love the war ends just i don't go to see my friends of 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. and brought home ones or similar i'm coming to russia to. leave here because my all and. my name is or not i risk to come back to the lovely country when would we see. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build new life here.
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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 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. my brother. but i prefer to kim here because i believe the big. you may be in the coming tween teens not now. many syrians
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came to this village in search of peace and other local people helping rebuild the house. people who. told me that this house is empty can you accept to live here. for me this is not. his wife to stay for awhile 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 leave us to be a green facility in syria like me to just to go to clubs so we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not it's a french. in syria none so you had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten into 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
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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 sound fun didn't explosion it was my kitchen door broke the windows were broken would be very sad because this is the only chair when dreams me i make enemies and banks came. and the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect their families. their home. her house her.
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career her syria and everything and she had 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. we also crying all the time when i crying. it's not easy for you to forget. you are. to go see you. six months ago husband small house in the 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.
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nearing. a. family 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 the american people believe maybe freedom and. peace. for me no i don't think it was. destroying syria and not syria we are believe hundred percent of. the syrian people are not doing. what. might or might for.
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you we always believe that god maybe will give us. because we are seeing god with people and what. i would like. myself 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. to see what's happening to. people all just
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life and just killing each other nobody knows what. and i left my home go i left my job my friends some family also still there we left our whole life. yet you. see his nine year old daughter can speak. russian she only knows arabic and neither her schoolmates nor her teachers can understand. that patience for her was more difficult than 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
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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 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 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 was 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
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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. to work or anything. my homeland. i love. all time you're. here. brides and grooms join in the islam a 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 with the. being to all of the countries where the id diaspora settles jordan syria and turkey they have mostly assimilated but the arab and
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turkish cultures are performances where discovery the dancers realized that they were really representing a great nation and a 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 has . 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 to again. russia was our choice 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. the first time we knew about
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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 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. as i can.
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push an accountant i was walking as finance manager. for me creation. if you want his wife and some to staying in a michael plot for some of pays the rent from the meager savings he could bring from syria but they'll last no 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 better. why has the economy he knows english french arabic and actually it's didn't benefit us what we learned what war. because we don't or we lack the russian language.
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and what. they offered to home we don't have to pay our rent or. for saving money for us we will go to see what's wrong with this little. i recall sure feel. oh how close. you were. and if you. 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. i want for my children to live in peace away from war they wus learn russian
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school they go to university. they will become russian citizens i think we will do too it's a matter of time all in. every detail. every piece of metal. and every one of those who will step on red square on the ninth of may are ready. for the big green day parade. watch the live coverage on our t.v.
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. to speak old language such. as programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on all t.v. reporting from the we'll talk sports fifty yard p. interviews intriguing stories for you to. see in trying. to find out more visit our big. dog called.
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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. all over all over the whole. of the. car spend a lifetime working as a teacher in syria he was even
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a school principal when he arrived eight months ago the local council of elders aust him to be on him up in arabic example to follow their entrusted with ensuring a spiritual education. i have compiled an arabic 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 and often 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
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brought nothing except. the biggest treasure they had to leave behind in syria was several members of their large 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 in their own body in the every day she says mother buddy buddy in a syria or saudia in arabic. by. when she was in syria nuffin was a primary school teacher mother and grandmother taught her how to embroider traditional a deacon on the boats 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 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 are my sisters and i think ok i wish
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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 you received or to give that. you. love. and. i never believe that you are you for my two three too scared to die. my mom would refuse because it could also i how. you would resist and you would have never been see your i can't see
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you. so didn't when do you please move during the. three out of me you are you know you're part of the our. 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 i don't have a lot of friends like this.
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when i don't says i want to to make my lovely country seem to be. like i was to turn suzy happy food. 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 people don't speak at least my native language it's nothing less 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.
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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. to leave the good life. in syria look. at you in. the long. run. you love you. you know i like relieved because there is a kill that. you feel good and all busy. problem in the
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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 have to come back soon i still can't have great dreams here because my heart's still in ca. see. my own car it's like you a car you can drive it not that it's really hard to drive and discard it when you still don't tell a good job to buy it with a car like in syria. heat. bodied elite.
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athletes luck first and. then learning. the art to see. when they can delete the older. missed it entirely. on termites we are on the last. lines around. this town series and very much they are mine. this is the first time but 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
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know our room and this is true. but from my home and around the city. and as you see a lot of windows here. we will consider this time becoming two years maybe a like time off from city life from working at the offices who work where clause to nature. this is what we tried this experience we will see maybe we just. wanted the toilets going to be here. here. commander style buds and what's going to be here moment other than to 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
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opportunity to live in peace away from noise away from home or if. fighting. for sure is may go through the biggest country to war but it is similar to syria it's more than a p.c. . four feet. nearly two years and three years these islands are. all living in peace this is a big action and all of life so it is not easy to change it all to redo it in a few years i think the sections you can do with one you will be.
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and her. mum with her. cutlery her. mum is so good a plug. plug lists look at. her. little mouth run of a little. sleep . more news today violence is once again fled up the fees are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada the first chinese operations are relieved a. look. at
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least. safe.
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please a declaration of war that is how syrian officials have described the latest israeli airstrike a military research center near damascus was pummeled with the rockets early sunday morning. action from the u.n. while the u.k. calls for an. arms embargo on the opposition saying peace in the region is now under threat. of court has sentenced thirty one protesters to fifteen years in jail for throwing firebombs. last year. in broadcasting live from moscow this is.

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