Travelling to Montenegro and meeting with Russian journalists // What's happening in Russia now

Many people pointed out that it’s not my first time in Europe, because I visited Moscow and St Petersburg. And they’re right, because geographically, Europe is everything that extends east all the way to the Ural Mountains. But I rather meant this division into Western and Eastern Europe, implying that Montenegro is in Western Europe. But then I found out that there is also the concept of “southern Europe”, and Montenegro refers more to this😄 So I am confused, but I can still say that this is my closest experience to Western Europe, because Italy is just across the sea, and I paid in euros! Anyway, thank you for the warm comments and the interesting info your share. I will keep it up, and have a nice day everyone!

Natasha, I am a retired American journalist, with a career spanning newspapers, magazines, broadcast and internet. I have been watching your content for a couple of years, and admired your work as you developed your skills. I hope that attending the conference for young journalists in Montenegro was enlightening and inspiring. But in talking about the conference you referred to yourself as just a YouTuber; you are more than that. You need to understand that although you work for yourself and publish on YouTube, you are very much a journalist. Your videos are personal documentaries, with observations on culture, politics and history. You have a natural skill as a storyteller and commentator, and your handheld camera work is raw and instinctive. You have taken your audience on a journey through Russia and beyond, with you as the central character. Keep up the work, and don't denigrate yourself. What you are doing is important, and you do it well.

I like how Natasha's mind works, and the randomness. It's like taking a walk with an old friend talking about things she learned abroad.

As a Ukrainian who speaks Ukrainian and Russian fluently and has Slovak roots, I can understand a lot in Slavic languages. And sometimes it is surprising and funny when similar words have opposite meanings. For example in Czech “voňavka” means perfume, but “вонять” in Russian means to stink.

Hi. I already commented 4 hours ago but have just watched this video again and was impressed by the short part starting at 11:33. I love the way you (Natasha) pull out of that street shot and we are now looking at your laptop on the plane and you continue talking about language for a while and then zoom back in to the laptop to another street view. That was very clever and fun Natasha. Great editing. Great creativity.

I like all of your work and I must admit, I have been a little impatient for you to provide more. I love your exploration of languages and cultures. Be safe. Be happy.

Loved everything about this video, Natasha. It has such a "stream of consciousness" vibe about it, yet I know from experience putting it together must have been much more work than that. Your audio, lighting, color balance, and linguistic/context anecdotes speak volumes about this work. As others have indicated in these comments, you're already doing journalistic work, but I'm glad this event provided focus in that direction. Journalism is a tough thing to do well, but I think you've managed it amazingly well. Greetings from the US. 👍

Hi Natasha, congratulation!!! you have 371 thousand subscribers 31 plus million views, you are now a journalist on your own self. enlightening and inspiring peoples around the world💙💙💙

It's nice when Natasha drops a video. She was my window into what it's like in Russia long before the war.

My grandparents were from Montenegro, i visited some time ago and its an incredibly beautiful country with lots of nice people.

that smooth transition at 11:33 👌

Great video! As usual. Please, stay on.

International collaboration is so very important for all the reasons you showed. Keep up the good work Natasha. It's been encouraging to see you go from for-fun/light hearted videos to more serious and current event relevance. I won't be surprised when I see you on a much broader stage.

Natasha you speak such good English...hope to find new energy to keep your channel updated.. always good to hear what is happening around you and your world view 😎 best wishes from Oklahoma

Good to have you back, your insights are always fascinating and unexpected. The world needs continual reminders that Russian ladies are not all loathly like Margarita and Scabby Olga.

Great video Natasha....you will go far, trust me !

Hello Natasha good to see you back, You have not lost your ability to blog, you are just as articulate and interesting as before.

I'm glad you've been able to travel for a positive reason. Montenegro is an interesting place.

Hi Natasha, it's cool that you're interested in languages. I'm a translator living in Czechia and I love languages and lingustics. Right now I teach Czech to Ukrainean refugees who found refuge in our country. Actually, I meet Poles from time to time and we always laugh a lot comparing our languages 🙂 Not only that some words sound funny to each other but a lot of words are the same but with completely opposite or at least different meaning.

Hi Natasha! Good to see you again! And thank you for this interesting video.