my name is natalia. young i'm russian my husband loves us if it's a said. we came here to south his thirtieth from russia to him it's been four years since we moved here i don't regret a. push me away the city of sin falls was devastated by the two thousand eight hundred. there was debris everywhere you looked there were burnt trees and. it was a horrible sight. you know what i'm already thinking of settling down here. i.

think there is divine you can not enjoy the climate is definitely. i love. for its hospitality for its mountains group boards proud people. who think he's you. know got to push my work around the clock on the ambulance from the seventh of august until eleven for. five days without a break we were terrified. but we also calls on the phone we carried the

injured under fire and that was all right. but when they started shooting machine guns and mortars it was more difficult. georgians were already there at the hospital they started attacking. they fired grad multiple rocket so that left a huge hole in the build. we ran through the hole and saw george unarmored car outside. i crawled in and took a machine gun we carried machine guns with us but it went on coals. who were cool if we were on duty for twenty four hours mostly man of course but the worse some women feel matters too. and with me which on the seventh we decided to get some rest i left my deputy in my place the regular shift and driver on judy i

went home. that wasn't going to be well up out of there was just a cease fire well what i thought i suggest immediate negotiations enabled was i confirmed what i said three years ago to grow. unlimited autonomy and self-government to look at something. he couldn't even of georgian television was broadcasting saakashvili message about this peace initiative literally every thirty minutes everyone involved believed him he's the president after all. all of it turns thirty two in july and in august he was killed in the sittin here the last time we talked was on the evening of the seventh during saakashvili speech to calm down a bit when he called i said can't you take a break for

a few days there lympics or go no and maybe they won't do anything you laughed bitterly and sat alone now what are you talking about you have no idea there is no end to george's military vehicles. what are they for do they just want to show us their strength is what on the eve of the eighth of august the minister of defense sent him to oversee the southern border and to provide coordinates here watch them approaching the border he's so how many vehicles they had she knew what was coming. down he was wounded in the chest way shall fragment bleeding heavily he managed to send a message saying he'd been detected by the enemy. with you and they started firing grad rockets after eleven thirty pm right beside my house it was terrible everything was burning it sounded like

a thunderstorm it was all shaking as we found out later the first wave of rockets took out all our television broadcasts. out of the city was on fire nobody knew what was happening it was the first time they'd fired grad rockets they used to fire missiles before one or two but this time it was completely different. in the morning we were all in the underground shelter i think you know what to do next there was no communication only tanks all around us here we came out to find georgian democracy in our streets. for bush and bush they had been felled almost like a computer game that was the impression from the us but it wouldn't be my course when they started shooting i knew i had to find shelter behind our walls. so why

did you miss the most interesting thing is that we had our staff on the second floor government as it was we opened an extra exit there was a post made that up the georgian infantry went through. the floor above us occupied by our soldiers with the city's electricity had been cut off for the substation to be blown up the night before those we kept working it was crucial for us that we had our work and we were side by side with the soldiers and the government we were in the right place. and this there was a bathroom we have water and of course no one wanted to eat because of nervous tension i lost five kilograms of wood you know. injured us the russian troops entered the city on the eleventh after that all the girls started to come back if they cleared out the debris. and we were

already on air on the fourteenth. to tell you the truth all our lives have been postponed for the past twenty years because of what use we. had put our wishes off for the future we told ourselves that in time we'll show would recognise our state maybe even the us would eventually do the same. of others and then we'd live happily we don't have a seaside and visit western countries we just can't do it now if we were happy to wake up in the morning and know that our relatives were safe and none of our friends were dead and that was our greatest joy back then at the bull now we can live freely as we can feel the breath of freedom and. about now congratulations everyone. of course we learned a lot of terrible things a lot of sad stories. one mother and daughter had

a gas tank hit near their house when a shell hit it and everything went up in flames the idea was the mother tried to cover her daughter with her own body. they were both badly burned. the daughter died on the second day but her mother never knew about it she went blind and after two weeks in a coma she died too but she never knew that her daughter had died. soon or were my son was thirty seven. my daughter was meant team my son was sixteen . were born here he didn't get far or knew he was still in the city and tanks were going in his direction when our movie fired point blank of his car and shell blew up he had a lot or he just flew into the. street. it all happened there. they were shooting. at my family. and i was left alone and to anybody

my son wasn't driving an armored car i wasn't even military and what were they doing there were children inside not fighters where we. would be to flew they were killed instantly real does it i looked and saw that they had fallen and. i didn't know what to do. the infantry followed the tanks or i came and told kerosene on the bodies and burned them you know. i had nothing left to bury but their ashes. it was terrible. to blame. i don't know. what were our children guilty of. and i don't know.

perhaps i haven't let them go when you were going to still be a life now. how could i know the georgians were already on the city. they could have survived like i did and that's ella those no i couldn't see how i could go on living and i still not no. she was pregnant at the time itself in two thousand and nine she gave birth to a baby. my grandson. i was on the brink of taking my own life what else could i live for. such as for now it was born exactly nine months after the conflict i didn't even know i was pregnant. your film i didn't care. i didn't even want to know what would happen to him in fifteen years would he be killed too. rather startled i live for my grandson.

he's the only joy in my life is true i have no wish for a better life who. i just want to bring up my grandson for as long as i can do nothing else interests me of like a living coke's will. i believe in god. he gave me my son. god gave me strength. once i said to a believer i said to her there's no board a poor simple worker is wiser than the god you praise so much. who the auster why do i speak against god. i said that when a farmer grows cold the potatoes he looks at the seeds and cuts away the bad ones and in the autumn he gets a good harvest. the farmer destroys the beautiful but useless seeds. and criminals live longer than good people. the religious man replied. god does the

same thing. he takes the good seeds with what he doesn't want the bad ones. that. don't go the body i sell wooden spoons an axe show us here in the market. and if the weekend people are taking a rest. i like to talk to people. takes my mind off my grief. can't live without me there really needed me here so how can make. you now i hate all georgians. be my enemies. always. i'm not angry god will forgive them. every sunday i go to church to pray for my

children and for those who kill them. perhaps they want to be blamed perhaps they were just ordered to kill. at least god will forgive them. lead. these kids with economic ups and downs in the final months they belong to the old sang i and the rest look like it's going to be a single day every week the lead. up

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pleasure to have you with us here today. we had the situation someone had been shot the night before there was a heated discussion everyone was saying kill all georgians i said showtime tell it to our engineers george and do we shoot him too. they said what's he got to do with it and. be sure you see there are different attitudes to georgians. they've lived with us all these years. in the cellars and started with us i think georgians are much closer to us. who got away. but i don't think

that there were some georgians here during the war hiding in the cellars oh yes in your houses cellar yes there were seven of them we didn't hurt them we fed them first and then we ate. as they say don't kick a man while he's down. why not make friends. and. it's only the politicians who wage wars not ordinary people but it's a sensitive question of course we're afraid what guarantee is there that future georgian governments won't come for say. how many times have they massacred the people three times that's why the international community should recognise selfless asia as an independent state that would give some protection. we are spared the boring now but it's still a comfortable. it. was one of the

most beautiful in this lots of roses we had roses everyone had roses we have been through so much i was born and raised on the street any one of us could have left straight away but we knew that our first duty was to defend our homeland and we did but that's why nobody from always treat left. everyone who has lived said here for the last twenty years has loved. the fact that they stayed helped keep our country together you know at the heart of it of course is love for the law love for setting a love for the come. drinker regardless of nationality is a risk with your concern mr. we used to live there the local are not far from san vall. but i missile hit our

house during the georgian war in one thousand nine hundred two if we had nowhere to live so we came here to this house was deserted. from what we have lived here ever since. it's been twenty years now. yes my name is layla i must say ten i've got five children. in my grandchildren come to visit me this is my eldest grandson dive eat he's eight. soon i'll have two more grandchildren. though of course they help me with feeding the animals for example mama feeding chickens giving the call's hay you will live on what we can grow ourselves. with we've got a cow and we sell cheese and potatoes we grow

a lot of potatoes yes and we make butter and sell me too. and it's hard living here a long winter lots of snow no roads here there was no electricity until a couple of months ago. there's no one around there's one village but it's a long way away. we've got used to it. we live in s.a.t.'s and we love it everyone loves his homeland right. now but it's good there's no war we were terrified when the fighting broke out the border was so close to her the shooting. you can easily see two. from here. of course. it's peaceful here now.

so whatever a man considers to be a sacred place he should go there with a pure heart it's a sanctuary. if a man treats anywhere in the universe as though it was sacred then everywhere will become sacred to him. this was about you there are so many wonderful places you can come here to rest to enjoy and to pray. it'll be better for you if you walk very high than two thousand meters on there's no real close. vishy people here believe that three pies is given as a tribute symbolizes the trinity of the same with three candles on fire.

they sacrifice a lamb to on god's blessing. they want to experience the spirit of this place the power of the sanctuary. lambada. with. the majority of a city and now we're all christians. but the old an originalist city and religion itself well that goes back to before christian times you know holding the place where it now is a pretty christian sanctuary. and many of the holidays and celebrations we have today date back to way before christianity did but if some of the old pagan knowledge is mystical. nature. and this knowledge is something that makes people stronger i believe that on more than one occasion of the one i escaped death thanks to my prayers at the tribal sanctuary. not once did i think that i wouldn't survive but i came out of it completely untouched he said you go very few people came here

between nine hundred eighty nine and two thousand and eight one of the conflict with georgia got in the way would be if there was no opportunity for them to travel the long distance to come here. now that we've had peace into two thousand and eight places reviving and coming back to normal life goes on it never stops it will go on. and. that lead to lord x. to make things better for us. we put ourselves in god's hands that's good if you're . i was born in a small a settee in village so i'm a native of this republic i graduated from the teaching universe team the physics

and mathematics department and i went on to work in a school. but since april twenty eighth wells i've been the president of the republic of south ossetia that was through the free will of our people. must come in atlanta who's next on the list. but will now spend almost all my life in south setting. up so that's why i'm so familiar with all the problems of people who've lived through. the house finished. are you living somewhere else the roof still hasn't been finished. and the roof not finished. so you could you make a measure that is. if you. are all the destruction that went on for several years our primary goal is to restore the damage and build new houses what. should people need normal living conditions what we. believe there should be should

have the chance to study you go to school go to a movie to the fear. that it will but to help the poor. fool who told me they deserve the opportunity to spend their leisure time in the same way as anybody else in the twenty first century. they say i am democratic. we must have an open society. yet you just need briefings that don't make gold always. drawn to three poise and three compounds feel guests. i commend you all to go to almighty and less him always help. me. please come in.

come on mr de mille i'm so grateful to you. i'm very pleased to see that our people are so positive about building and strengthening our country statehood. while you go from that's the most i always like to keep in touch with the people. of. mr to be able of. course i wish you a very long life of coke asian and siberian good health. but please use your last term of office. to bring together the two a set is then you will go down in history as the man who united north and south. within the borders of russia. and what's left for the president. this calls for a town. i'm

a down to earth man and i want to try to live my life amongst the people to live with dignity. but i decided i would live modestly with the same conditions as the people of our country. but the most you know you. i'm certainly not boasting but i do believe that on the mount of modest needs. i intend to stay this way until the end of my presidential term. we're celebrating the fifth anniversary of the end of the war the august war of two thousand and eight as if we've been building

a new state for the past five years five years of peace that's already reason for celebration which is but without as we can build houses and travel freely around the republic the roads are open and we're no longer afraid for our children's lives we know that they will grow up without gunfire without power being cut off or roads blogs they won't hear about friends and family being killed. here we didn't expect to live through five years of such peace and quiet. we hope it lasts forever.

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