История Олимпиады, эмиграция, журналистика, блогеры | ВЕЛОПРОГУЛКА В ПАЛИЧ, СЕРБИЯ

От центра Суботицы до озера Палич — путешествие по бывшему королевскому курорту, воспоминаниям и жизни после переезда. На велосипеде через границы и эпохи.
В этом видео — прогулка по северу Сербии: архитектура Якаба и Комора, рассказы о венгерской Олимпиаде и пустые купальни имперской мечты.

Палич — это не просто озеро. Это место, где встречаются прошлое и настоящее, тоска и ирония. Здесь я и отвечу на вопросы зрителей: о переезде, журналистике, эмиграции, депрессии и о том, почему всё это иногда накрывает одновременно.

📍В видео:
— Поездка от Суботицы до Палича
— Трагичная судьба суботинского трамвая
— Прогулка по историческим местам, где тренировались атлеты
— История Олимпиады в Венгрии и кто такой Lajoš Vermeš
— Удивительная водонапорная башня
— Эмиграция и жизнь на Балканах
— Депрессия, одиночество и личные ответы
— Разговоры о блогерах и журналистике: Варламов, Samsebeskazal, Миша «Вкусно и интересно»

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Поездка в одиночестве в Боснию, работа в редакциях, откаты, Габрелянов и Лайф, концерт Tool и Metallica, протесты в Суботице и многое другое, что не вошло в основной выпуск.
🎥 Настоящее видео о том, как жить, когда ничего не понятно.
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00:00:00 Начало
00:01:25 Обзор подвала
00:02:35 Начинаем ехать
00:06:30 История, как я попал в КПЗ
00:09:40 Последняя поездка трамвая в Суботице
00:19:18 Что делают вагоны московского метро в ЕС
00:21:40 Удивительная башня
00:26:33 Начало прогулки в Паличе
00:31:08 Работа в “Комсомольской правде в Санкт-Петербурге” | парусники на Паличе
00:38:36 Работа на канале 78 | Палич с воды
00:41:14 Работа на канале “Санкт-Петербург” | венгерский детский сад
00:45:38 Эммиграция из России. Сравнение Хельсинки и Петербурга
00:48:38 Лайош Вермеш – человек, который придумал Олимпийские игры
00:51:01 Рассказ про Чехию, Словакию, войну, санкции и Сербию
00:56:06 Бюрократия в Сербии, изучение языка
00:59:47 Работа с блогерами: Samsebeskazal, Миша, Варламов
01:07:27 Недвижимость в Сербии. Белград, Нови-Сад, Суботица
01:10:55 Немного про пивоварни в Сербии и русский чай
01:12:54 ВНЖ Сербии, путешествия по Европе
01:15:35 Про автомобили в Сербии
01:17:53 Финал. Ищем памятник спящим старушкам

This is, phooey, a fly flew into my mouth. Hello everyone! Today we will ride a bike from the center of Subotica to Palic. I will show you what the road looks like, tell you why this place is special. There is a lake with a legend, sailboats, village houses and the former Olympics. Yes, in 1880, sports games were held here 16 years before the Olympics in Athens. And I will also answer your questions. About moving to Serbia, about emigration, melancholy, depression, about journalism, what happened to it and what it was, about working with bloggers and more. A lot had to be cut out from the YouTube version. With boost and YouTube sponsorship, I will leave you an extended version. There are stories about Life and Gabrelyanov, about the 100TV channel, about working in different editorial offices and even about kickbacks, about a trip to see Metallica in the Czech Republic and about a solo trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina for a birthday. And about why sometimes you don’t want to edit at all, even if you know how. If you want to go deeper, everything is there. Well, we begin. We wave goodbye to Hungary in that direction. On horses with carts. It’s impossible. Granny is riding behind. Hello, sanctions have arrived for you. We’ve already forgotten about it. There was complete chaos there. Everything ends in death and the statue will die too. In St. Petersburg, every day someone was either dismembered or killed. Do you know what this is? A review of the basement. The content we deserve. So, what do we have here? Well, what does the basement look like? This is the backpack I’m going to take with me now. There are radiators. There are fans. This is for winter. This is for the summer. And a ton of boxes. Because as an immigrant, you still want to have boxes. So you don’t have to run around later. It’s more like, as you know, psychological trauma. So let them stand there, we’ll feel calmer with the boxes. The fans are here for a reason. Because even with an air conditioner at plus 45, it all spreads around the apartment very slowly. And so you put the fans in, and they still blow cold air around the apartment. That’s how it is. By the way, something fell off here. It’s lying around. Well, that’s for now, while the weather is disgusting and nasty, even though it’s May. It should already be plus 35, and now it’s only plus 22. Climate change is obvious. And our bicycles. Now I’ll take Merida for a ride. Let’s go. The Tolik car is moving towards the state border. But, actually, here’s the bike path. I suggest we take it. Today we’ll go to the royal resort of Palic. Which is located right on the border with Hungary. Well, how far is it? 5 km. In general, you could say that it is on the border. Our spirited horse, or whatever it is called. Now we will mount it and go. Well, if there is something interesting on the way, the main action will be in Palic. If there is something interesting, I will, of course, either stop or comment. Well, let’s go. Physical education-hello. Well, actually, this bike path goes straight to Palic. Straight to the resort area. We are riding along it. E-e-e-e-w-what? How? Why? Yes, some people still need to learn the rules of the road! The bike paths here, as you can see, are now a real hell of revelry. Very old. But, as I understand, as far as I remember, I saw some photos from Novi Sad , from the 60s, all this was already there, everyone was riding bikes. Well, because it is a Must Have transport here. It may be old, but it goes straight to Palic. Through all, all, all of Subotica. Although, sometimes on these rocks and trees it is generally inconvenient. Just hell. Well, and quite narrow. Then we will leave the city area and it will be more fun, wider, there it will be more likely that it will remain. Well, there are not so many people walking there, it is a highway between two, like, villages. And there either by bike, or by bus, on foot, I don’t know, it’s a long walk there. And I’m really lucky today. I’m driving along, and the lights are all green. Damn it. Well, it’s certainly a lot of fun to drive here. No, I’m just grumbling, it’s actually convenient to drive along. It’s also separated from the pedestrian path here. It’s very convenient, because the only places where pedestrians and cyclists meet are bus stops. Oh, the light’s green again. What the hell? I’m in the movie “Taxi.” But that was a breeze. But now there’s going to be a small stop. I’ll tell you a funny little story. And that’s probably why the traffic lights will stop working so wonderfully. There. We’re almost-almost-almost there. I’ll probably turn here. Whoops. So I can brake properly without getting in anyone’s way. So. Anyway, yes, here’s the bike path I was driving along. The pedestrian path. And over there is the MUP. The Ministry of Internal Affairs. That’s where I filled out all the paperwork for my residence permit and other things. And over there is the temporary detention facility. And… Naturally, being a Russian moron, I went the wrong way. I thought, in fact, that this was a clinic. But I went there. And… So, I dump it. They told me, office number eight is under the stairs. I dump it into this building, where the real Ministry of Internal Affairs is located. And I start wandering around there, just unnoticed by anyone. So, I go down… Under the stairs, looking for the stairs, go down into some basement. I walked through the basement. “Well, probably on the other side of the stairs…” I was wandering around here. I turn there by the main entrance. And there are pretrial detention cells. All sorts of alcoholics are sitting there behind bars. Some criminals. And I’m in a white shirt, you know, in a wide-brimmed hat with documents. “I think I went somewhere wrong.” Well, and, actually, two policemen, what do you call them, policemen, jumped out with machine guns. Like, what are you doing here? I say: Well, I’m looking for office number eight. Office number eight is right there! And they say, what are you doing, how did you even get in here? I say, I just walked in off the street. In general, they were stunned by this. But then I went there and did everything quickly, in 5 minutes. The advantage of living in a small town. Consider it by Russian standards in a village, is that you just come in, do your business quickly and leave. No electronic queues, nothing. Although, in my opinion, electronic ones were introduced throughout the country. Yes, there is definitely an electronic queue for entrepreneurship there . But there are still a lot fewer people. That’s the kind of fun. Well, let’s move on. Where is my spirited horse? There he is. Handsome. Well, that was what was to be proved. As soon as I stood near the Ministry of Internal Affairs, that’s it – a red light. Here, as usual, in any city. By the way, it may even be somewhat similar to the American suburbs – gas stations, stores, large malls. Or rather, there is only one here. The city is small. That’s it. And that’s it, there’s nothing else. This is where the residential area ends. Further on, there’s some abandoned mansion and that’s it. Then we’re smashing across a field. I don’t see any downsides. In smashing across a field. Green, green, green, please. I don’t want to stand. It’s very inconvenient to stand with a camera. Hooray! My luck has returned. Well, that’s it. What I’m talking about. There’s a big store. A grocery store. And here , some football team is training. Judging by the appearance of this establishment, it’s a successful football team. So, what else is there? Oh, shit! I mean between Subotica and Palic in the 19th century. There was a tram in the 19th. Here are its remains. All this, I think, was removed in the 60s, when there was motorization. And since then the tram has not been running. Here is its corpse. It is very disappointing. Life has clearly become worse. In the 19th century there was a tram, but now nothing runs. Well, some old buses run and that’s it. And here is the so-called plaza. It is purely a suburb. And then there is everything. Fields, fields, forests. The state border. Well, we are riding along it. That is the state border. Or rather, we are riding along the fence. But it is there. I don’t know. 5 km, probably. Maybe 10. Some small distance, because my neighbor, for example, he has a Serbian passport. He gets on his bike and does a circle. He doesn’t care about the borders with a Serbian passport. He does a circle from our house. In an hour he leaves for Hungary. From there to Szeged. A Hungarian city on the border. A Hungarian city on the other side of the border. And he returns home. Well, that’s a 3-4 hour walk. Unfortunately, I don’t know about this yet with my Russian passport . Or at least not yet. Some mansions, by the way, like this. Holy shit: to hold balls. Here, another grocery store. A big one. A car wash next to it, there’s another gas station somewhere over there. Red light. There’s a construction supermarket there. A hypermarket, over there’s JYSK. That’s Danish, I think. And behind it, a local one. Well, that’s it. It ends there. There, somewhere among the trees, there will be a METRO Cash and Carry. This German one. German, that’s what it’s called, oh my God. Discount chain, that’s it. Also a grocery store. And that’s it. And I’m going after grandpa. Already. Read in the field. Well, that’s the standard picture. They’re selling laminate flooring. That’s it. A fly flew into my mouth. That’s the highway that goes to the border with Hungary. There’s the village of Horgos and the border crossing is also called Horgos. That’s where it goes. And we are heading in the same direction. There is not much traffic here , it would seem that this is the main highway. This is the main highway that connects even Belgrade. Yes. Belgrade and Budapest. There it is. One car goes there every 20 seconds. Well, that’s it, fields, fields. There. Let’s wave goodbye to Hungary in that direction. The guy slows down for some reason. I see. He is turning into the METRO. There is a pedestrian crossing there. Just a little further. There it is even already in the frame. But the guy decided not to bother. And to cut right across the highway . Congratulations to him. On such a brilliant decision. In comparison, for example, let’s compare it to what? With my beloved Finland. In comparison with Finland , cyclists here do not have to have a helmet. As far as I know, in Finland you can ride without a helmet only in one city. It is the city of Oulu, I think. In all the others you are required to have a helmet. Especially on such a road. You can do without a helmet. On the other hand, I don’t drive very fast. On the dedicated lane. If a car jumps out at me. Well, I do n’t think a helmet will save me. Although, maybe it will. Anyway, wear a helmet. Don’t be like the Serbs and like Tolik. This rule is mandatory here. As far as I know. If I go straight on the road. Now, if I go on the road, then I’ll put on a helmet myself. I’ll be scared. And the pedestrian. And the pedestrian and bike path have merged into one. Advertisement on Hungarian. And fields, fields, fields. There. There are fields there. So. There’s another construction zone there. They sell something, who knows. I don’t know. Well, that’s it. We made our way through the fields. And entered Palic. Well, almost entered. Now there’s a crossing. That’ll be Palic. Wow, how fast. Praise. I’ll be accused of Russophobia again. But I don’t give a f*ck, actually. I was so surprised after St. Petersburg. After Moscow, I won’t even say anything. That here everyone gives way. In St. Petersburg, in principle, they give way. Everything is fine. But here, the level is just off the charts . And it was visible right now. When the dude was driving in a truck, and braked sharply when he saw me. He could, in fact, have continued driving. No one stopped him from turning. He probably would have had time. But no. Such a whoop, if you please. These are the pleasant advantages of life, including in Subotica. Well, that’s it, here he is, Palic. Palic is like that. What to compare it with, my God. Well, it’s stupid to compare it with Rublyovka . Well, some kind of semi-elite settlement, in general. Here on the outskirts it’s not so noticeable. Because here it’s the same thing. Auto stuff. And further on it will be noticeable. Benzinskaya stanitsa. That’s how it is. A Niva drove by. Holy shit. A gas station. The one that somehow saved Natasha and me. As they say, it farted. A tire farted. Or thumped. Thumped or farted, in short. We drove here very quickly. I pumped up the tire. There’s a thing there. A pump. A thing. And I took off on my bike. Before they flattened the tires. And I managed to get home. It’s fine. Only in the front door they flattened them. Lukoil gas station. And in my opinion, unlike America, it actually belongs to Lukoil. Yeah, the houses are just starting to appear. Good. And a container like that. And they are building it, that’s why there is a container there. A new house. Yes, there are scaffoldings there. A restaurant is 1 kilometer away. Horgoški put. Horgošskoe shosse, in our language. Horgoš is, yes, a border crossing. And even before, well, now there are also railway tracks. Before, in the 19th century , the Subotinskaya station, it was the first in Serbia. Railway. And before, trains ran from Budapest to Zemun. Zemun was a city on the very border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which ran right into Belgrade. Now Zemun is a district of Belgrade, then it was a city on the border. It was possible, well, in connection with this, Palic was a place of rest for everyone. There are old houses there. All sorts of nobility, all that. For example, they are selling some restaurant here. And besides, there was a tram from Sabadka, as I already said. In general, it was, let’s say in newspaper clichés: “A popular place for city residents to relax.” The bus stop is the only place where a cyclist should be very careful . Otherwise, everything is neat. Well, this Hungarian one. What is it like there? Modernism. Beauty! And everything along the lake will be in this style. Now we’ll get there, I’ll show you. Private plots of land. They rent out rooms. Because, like, the country has changed, but the resort hasn’t. The resort still exists. Beauty. Therefore, naturally, it is a popular vacation spot. Now it is citizens of two countries. The border has divided it a little, but overall, they don’t give a damn. Granny did the right thing, by the way. We need to dismount. So. Let’s make a short stop. Here, near the crossing with the railway. The historical facts just arrived. That’s where we came from. Yes, we were driving and driving and driving. That’s where the Palic railway station is. It’s right in the center now. That’s the railway that ran from Budapest to Zemun. Today’s Belgrade district. And it’s still functioning. There’s a train running between Subotica and Szeged now . To be precise, between Subotica and Szeged, yes, between Szabadka and Szeged. In different languages. What kind of train? It’s not an Allegro, like in St. Petersburg, where there was a train like that, damn. Here, it’s like two carriages. Three, two carriages. The funniest thing is that there are trains of the Serbian Railways and Hungarian trains. They rattle the trains. And the Serbian ones are cool. And the Hungarian ones are Moscow Metro carriages , in short, manufactured in the 2000s , with diesel traction. This looks absolutely amazing. We were riding there the first time. I didn’t know that there were Moscow metro cars there. I thought they were just old. Everyone was talking about Hungarian ones and such. And there, damn, there’s a real Moscow metro coming out from around the corner . And inside there, I’ll attach a photo, it says Moscow metro, such-and-such-year. Blah-blah-blah. It’s really funny. Very unexpected. A little car like this coming to you from Schengen . Here, this is the railway, actually, Palic station. And from Palic there, to the park. Well, let’s go on. I decided to walk anyway, because we’d already arrived. There was no point in getting on a bike at all. Because Palic station, and opposite it is… You can already see it, yeah, there ‘s an incredibly beautiful thing on the right. In the video about Subotica, I showed the synagogue that Jakab and Komor built, right? Hungarian architects. Actually, this building here, this is also their work. Well, the work of workers, I mean, they were architects. Do you know what this is? This is a water tower. Have you ever seen a water tower like this in your life? This is literally my mother’s friend’s son’s water tower . And it is so cool that they made it the symbol of Palic and on all the magnets, the water tower, basically. So, you have to press it. Amazing, yes, structures, of course. I repeat, I have only seen such things in Hungary, only here. It is as if children are sculpting something, well, such children, you know, who have graduated from art school. By all, by all the feelings, there should be a sea there. You can even see this blue opening, yes, with water. It looks very much like… Well, this is a resort, yes, this is a resort town, this is a resort place. How beautiful. But… there is no sea here. Or rather, there is the Palichskoe Lake, I think, even before the 19th century, that is, in the 1700s or so, they mined soda there. Well, and they made mineral water from this water, and they say that this… says that this used to be exactly the Pannonian Lowland, this was here, and this was the Pannonian Sea, that the lake was salty. In general, I don’t know why I went through the center, let’s turn off, I like to walk along the back streets. We’ll still have time to get there, but we won’t have time to get here . A jump through a bush, that’s it. Oh, I did post an announcement with questions, right. And this announcement had a photo of Natasha against the background of a beautiful tree with flowers. Against the background of a magnolia, I think. Well, let’s go then, I’ll start from there answer questions, since I posted that photo, why not start. But first I need to find it, of course, because I don’t remember, I remember that it was somewhere around here. Well, where exactly. Well, what exactly did you mean. So. And, in my opinion, by the way, in my opinion, I didn’t even have to look for long. Well, and so, yes, all sorts of mansions. This one clearly needs repairs. This one, no. Beautiful. Fences that I haven’t seen for ages. I’ll say again, just like in my homeland. They’ll say: “Aaah, Russophobe!” Well, people who don’t accept any criticism. Apparently, there’s only one convolution in their heads, that’s why they yell. At least there’s a fence here that’s okay. Well, there for some reason is some kind of prison fence, some kind of barbed wire. Like, why? It continues further as a regular fence, which you can climb over. There’s some kind of incomprehensible thing there. Oh, well, the tree has faded. The tree has finished blooming. This is where this photo was taken, which I posted as an announcement. This is the tree. There are the dogs. They are so scary . And there are the fish. You can’t see the fish. Damn, there are no fish either. And the tree has finished blooming. Kitty kitty! How scary. Doesn’t want to. Okay, he will bark from a distance. Let’s read what’s here. Special prize. A place in the competition for beautiful Subotica. Come here, I’ll give you something tasty. Of course, I’m lying, I have nothing, but you don’t know that I’m lying. That’s it, that’s it, you scary dog, I’m gone. This building is, of course, a pity. But they will probably reconstruct it, they are putting everything in order here. And the Jakaba and Komora water tower, it was also under repair when I came here for the first time. Enclosed by scaffolding, and now look at the beauty I took a picture of. I’ll lean my bike here and open the first question. Druz will answer. Well, okay, let’s go back to the main alley through the bushes, as usual. Anyway, I’ll start with a question I was asked on YouTube. I’m there… By the way, please subscribe to my Telegram, because it’s very inconvenient to do this on YouTube. All these questions and everything else. So, the first question was like this. Tell us a little about yourself. A very, very good question in the sense that I don’t even know where to start. I was born in the St. Petersburg province, right, from that moment? Or from what moment. Well, let’s start from the moment, from the 8th year, 2008, when I came to work in journalism. Back then, I couldn’t find my place in this world, I didn’t like anything. I worked as a cook and some kind of equipment assembler in an electronics store. I studied to be a cook, studied to be a bartender, studied to be an ambulance paramedic, who the hell, I didn’t study. But there was something I didn’t like about everything. And in 1988, my mother was reading the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, there was still a paper version back then. And in 1988, my mother was like, listen, well, try this. There’s an ad needed there, you know, a picture editor. Well, she knew that I was into video editing, so, I edited it at an amateur level. How old was I? I was 20 years old then. At 20, I was sitting, doing all sorts of things, filming on early mobile phones that shot 320 by 240. And I was putting something together in Sony Vegas. Well, try this, she said, maybe you’ll like it. And, in general, yes, my mother played a decisive role in my fate, in addition to the fact that she gave birth to me and raised me, yes, like, this is the most decisive role that I exist at all. And so, in 1988, I went there, they sat me down at the table, there was this Artem Skryabikov. He was, you see, the head of the Internet department, what do you call it, an editor, an Internet editor. He sat me down. At the computer. He said, well, look, there are 10 photos that need to be processed. And I still need to cut a video, look, from a raw report. Well, okay. I did all of this in 15 minutes, because what’s the point of sitting around? I want to go outside. It’s summer, it’s hot. I just got back from the dacha. Well, that’s it, he called me, the next day he said that I have to leave on Monday. So I got there without an education, without anything, I don’t have a higher education. My education was done much later through online courses. Tractor. Hello, tractor. Well, since the tractor interrupted, let’s take a picture. And the granny is riding behind! Let’s take a picture of another masterpiece. Let’s get closer now. It turns out to be a complex of buildings, yes, which starts at the water tower, and it is also a gate. And so, it ends with a pavilion like this. That’s how I was driving just now, yes, the whole way. So we went through the gate and found ourselves, oh, in some kind of fairy tale. In such a fairy tale. Here is our local sea, Lake Palic. Here, as I understand it, they are improving it for the summer season. By the way, there is no one here. That is, the temperature is basically normal, 22 degrees. That is, just right. And not cold, not hot, a light breeze blows. It’s high time to go for a walk. But there’s no one there. Well, there are some people there. There’s nothing to comment on here. You just need to put on ambient music and walk around, I think. Well, it’s beautiful. By the way, that’s a fountain. There’s water pouring out of the head of a fish, who is that, some kind of strange bird, water is pouring out of it too. And there’s another bird there. Water is pouring out of it too. Where did I stop? Yes, and I started working then at 20, I think, either at 20 or 21. How old am I now, Lord? 37, 38, 37. So, it turns out that I’ve been in journalism for 16 or 17 years. I started working there. Well, you could say that all the knowledge about editing, all the knowledge about how to write texts, life knowledge, all this was obtained in that old, normal editorial office of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Well, it’s not like I was getting my head around my ignorance, it was all structured, I was sent to different courses. And so on, so on, so on. And it was cool there, that is, you go to the courses, the editors paid for half of it. But that was back under the old general director, God bless him, Sergei Evgenievich Zelinsky. There was a period of time when in St. Petersburg every day someone was either being dismembered, or someone was being killed, or someone was being severely beaten, hit by a car, well, something like that, in general. It was a whole week when some kind of crap like that was happening every day. I had such a nervous breakdown then, I was afraid to go outside. I was so overworked, so saturated with this news, that I was afraid to go outside. Well, how could I go outside, I had to go to work. But I was really, really nervous, I was shaking, that was the kind of breakdown I had. I then took a week off and said, guys, I’m going to explode. They gave me a day off the next day without any problems. And a week later I came back as a completely calm, normal person, but of course I had more cynicism and black humor. It says Palic here, on the left in Serbian, on the right in Hungarian. This is CS – this is Ч. And the usual S is Ш in Hungarian. In general, I’m amazed at the language, of course. It’s from the Finno-Ugric group, but for some reason I understand Finnish better. A banal example is that a cat, yes, a kot, there in Ukrainian is kit, kotka, kot. And the Slavs who were under Austria-Hungary, that is, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, in general, they say machka. That is, their dog is a herd, and the cat is a pest machka. What kind of word is machka anyway? Considering that the Finnish language has kissa. A cat is kissa, everything is logical. And Hungarian is a terribly illogical language for me, I can’t understand it at all. But I live here, I have some knowledge. And my coach, I’m just eating every time, he says, what, we studied Hungarian at school, everything is clear, it’s a simple language. And my jaw hit the floor like bam. Here’s our local lake. There, people even go sailing. But the weather is so cool now, probably for them. And there are lots and lots and lots of sailboats here. The boat is here. Do you want a boat? We have a boat for you. True, it doesn’t sail, most likely it’s a restaurant of some sort. Or a toilet. So, what’s there? Komsomolskaya Pravda, blah-blah-blah. Well, yeah, somewhere around ’14, probably, working in the media, I started thinking about emigrating. Well, I didn’t have any illusions that somewhere else there would be another… There will be good politicians, yeah, that’s what I like when they divide black and white. A good politician, a bad politician. In my opinion, they’re all bad. Then, after all, Sergei Evgenievich Zelinsky left, went to work in Moscow, the editor-in-chief was replaced by God knows what. And somehow the editorial board began to slowly fall apart. Everyone started leaving. Well, it started somewhere around 2014. And anyway, in 2016… Oh, here we go, damn it, and I’ve already left. In 2016, our entire editorial team quit. In fact, in one day. Well, it was about a month, we all left in a month. By the way, I understand that I’m going to shorten this video a lot for YouTube. And even though I only have two subscribers on Boosty, I’ll probably edit the full, full version there. Because I’m going to talk a lot to myself here now. I know what I’m saying and I know how to say it, but I can still talk a lot. Of course, I’ll cut out the excess later during editing. So if you want the full version, the subscription levels there are at the price of a cup of coffee, as they say. Right? Or at the price of a glass of beer, even cheaper. Considering how everything has gone up in price. Let’s go there. That’s how it is now. That’s where the beach is. And, actually, that’s the road to Novi Sad. The developed area ends there. Now I’ll turn back. That’s where the zoo is. And that’s where the zone ends, fields with sunflowers. Private sector and so on. I can imagine how much real estate costs here. Well, let’s go, now let’s turn here. Oh, there’s a cool monument with two grannies sitting there. I took a photo of my mother in front of it. Totally awesome. Very funny. Well, where is it? Where is it? Where is it? We’ll find it now. Here we have an alley. Well, everything we’re used to in these Europes of ours, including St. Petersburg. Alleys, benches and definitely some statues. I’m more used to Pavlovsk, of course. Where you walk between antique statues. It’s all so… And you can feel, how can I say, some kind of royal quality in it. Here there’s more contemporary art, which God knows what was done here. Oh, well, some guy on a horse and, therefore, a steering wheel. Something like that. And also made of wood, by the way. That’s why it will be undermined by the rain and disappear. Well, by the way, there is something in this, really. Everything ends with death and the statue will die too. So, it even became interesting what was there. Well, and so in 2016 we all quit. Accordingly, I was already working at Inoekino. So, in general, it wasn’t that I didn’t care. I lost money, but I had Inoekino’s support. I was making a lot of videos a month then. And I had enough to live on. I just left, you could say, into nowhere. With some freelance work there and a little. I made some trailers for concerts, for awards. I shot videos, for example, for Theodor Bastard. We shot “Kukushka”. For Olya Glazova . For Olya Glazova. I communicated very well with Fyodor Chistyakov. And I shot concerts for him there, we made a film. So, in general, I was not sitting without work. Well, pictures in the form of asses, right? The Gradskaya pile. Here’s a sailboat. We haven’t reached this building yet. The Raichla Palace, which I told you about. In the video about Subotica. And, actually, the water tower. Well, I wasn’t sitting around without work. Then when I realized that I had to somehow… It’s hard to work at home. And I went to Channel 78. Our mutual friend was working there at the time, who worked at Komsomolskaya Pravda for a little while. Then he went to Life to work for Gabrelyanov. But that’s who he is. He’s a real yellow-haired guy, he loves all that crap. That’s why he was good at Gabrelyanov’s. And then he went to Channel 78. As a producer, I think. Or maybe as a journalist. Well, I called him and said, listen, do you need editors on the channel? He said, I’ll ask. He asked, and it turned out they did. It’s always like that with me. I ask something, and it turns out that it’s needed. Oh, and that’s them skating. Palich from the water. Like, yeah, look at Palich from the water. There they are skating. Well, actually, what? I came for an interview. And I came to the interview just to see Stas. It so happened that Stas was filming the last two documentaries for my channel, on YouTube. About the Genex tower. Stas Skiba. He’s in the credits too. And about the emigrants who opened a bar. He also helped me film. That’s how it happened that first he hired me, and then we met in Novi Sad. These are the obstacles of life. That’s it, I started working at Channel 78. At first, I worked as an editor for a year. Then I was promoted to editing director. So it’s not for nothing that I call myself an editing director, it’s even written down in my work record book. Anatoly Zayonchkovsky – editing director. Because people like to call themselves directors, then I talk to a person, and he doesn’t understand a damn thing about directing. But it sounds like: “editing director”. Two years ago, in defiance, I even deliberately called myself just an editor. Enough, damn it. Only editors everywhere. Look at what you’re doing. But this is just awful. So, what’s next? Well, actually, yes, Channel 78. Very strict corporate policy. In general, I am for warmth. That is why I worked there for two and a half years. A year as an editor, a year and a half as a director. Well, and that is just who I am, damn it. It puts pressure on me. I can’t do this. It’s like, I love myself. I love and value myself, first of all. But this, when… Well, let’s not air our quarrels in public. I told you there, that’s enough for now. I made a strategic decision to simply quit there. And that’s how it all worked out. Only I made the decision to quit. I received an offer to go to the St. Petersburg channel. St. Petersburg is the Smolnitsky channel of the city government. That is, it is honest. They honestly say, we are from Smolny. And I went. Oh, the kids went for a walk. So I went there, but I went for an unusual position. That is, the person who invited me knows that I am a very responsible guy, that I will not let him down. And it doesn’t really matter to me what to entrust. I can learn everything in a week. By the way, I heard something amazing. These are kids who speak Hungarian. It’s some Hungarian band. I went as an assistant director on a live broadcast. I’ve never been on a live broadcast. I went there. And I was like, damn, this is interesting. This is really, yeah! How long did I work there? Well, also about two years or so. I was getting really tired of politics. I realized that I was just burned out. Yes, I can’t work for these people. With all due respect, but I can’t. That’s it. Children’s playgrounds are generally cool. And then in the middle of my career on the St. Petersburg channel, about a year later, maybe six months later. There’s a guy named Yuri Yuryevich Zinchuk. He actually created the St. Petersburg channel. He invited me to his… How did he invite me? His director, who we have in the chat, in Telegram. So subscribe, we all communicate there. The old guard. That’s it. He called me and said, let’s go to Zinchuk to do “Pulse of the City”. A weekly program. It aired on Fridays. Yes, on Fridays. But not for the live broadcast, but for assembling the program. That is, you are a fast editor, you do everything right away for fun, there, almost without editing. Let’s bang. Come on. How much do they pay? So much. Come on. I think I sat there for another year. Moreover, there was already covid. And many were sick then. There were days when I first assembled the broadcast, and then with a square head went to this broadcast and sat there as an assistant. Launched everything that I had assembled before. Of course, they paid for this, but, damn, I returned home simply squeezed. Moreover, at about two in the morning. Yes, soon after, a year later, a decision was made that that’s it, no, I can’t do it anymore. I’m burned out, I’m going crazy, I’d better go freelance. At that time, I was already freelancing, well, we were still continuing with Inoekino. And in addition to Inoekino, there were some one-time orders. And I started doing motion design, graphics, and selling it on stocks. Motion design was possible back then, when stocks hadn’t gone crazy yet. I mean, they stopped paying so much. Capitalists, what? If you don’t want to, leave. And I, in fact, don’t post anything on stocks now. Back then, you could live normally on this, earn as much from stocks as I did on TV, and sit at home with my beloved wife, who also worked remotely. Well, there was Covid. And then I finally left the Russian media. Well, and then… Then Covid ended, and life had to get better. The big guys decided that there was no point in getting life better. And here we are. And here we are… The hotel. I don’t need to go to the hotel, but it’s done in the same style, in the same color scheme as the rest of the park. I guess that’s enough chatter about me already. There are still a lot of questions. Well, yes, we are here. You are at this point now. By the way, being at this point, you can just answer other questions that were there. Now, now, now. Tell us your story, why Serbia, what did you do in Russia? So, I told you that. Why Serbia, how did you meet Denis and Ilya? Ilya is probably Varlamov. What are your plans and forecasts for the future, are you planning to live in Serbia or… Oh, my God, a lot. Well, okay, here we are, yes. Why Serbia? I wouldn’t say that there was any strong choice then, at that moment when everyone was going crazy, they started a witch hunt, which, fortunately, ended quickly. Well, not in the Baltic countries, they are still chasing Russians there, but in general it all ended quickly. As if there was no choice, but in fact, I have already mentioned that I began to consider all this since 2014. Initially, of course, I am from St. Petersburg, I wanted, of course, to Helsinki. I was always amazed by the neatness, even the snobbery with which the Finns treat their city, their cities, and how they manage to live in the same, exactly the same climate, not in sh*t. Unlike St. Petersburg, where 9 months a year, icicles fall on you, cars splash you, you slip, break your legs, and so on, and so on, and so on. This happens in St. Petersburg 9 months a year. And all this is in the mud, because everything is dirty. They sprinkle granite chips there, they are not particularly clean either, if you think about it. But for some reason, we have sh*t all around all the time. There are no normal storm drains, nothing like that. First of all, I liked the way they treat the urban environment. I went there a couple of times already, like that, well, yes, it’s boring, of course, the climate is a little worse, but you can live. An interesting solution: to drive along the pedestrian zone by car. Well, then, well, this is all so, you know, reasoning, well, maybe there, maybe here, well, for now I’m sitting on my ass, and doing nothing. You could say, I’m lying to the side, the side I need, just lying. Well, let’s go further to this pavilion. Just somewhere around 2019 , covid started, and I was sitting at home , I didn’t sit at home for long, by the way, we needed to go to the TV channel, so I didn’t sit at home. Anyway, I worked, like, from Chapygina, 6. I made a table, and of course, I was most attracted to the Baltic countries, because they are nearby, the Czech Republic was tempting, Finland was tempting. Well, and I didn’t even consider Central Europe and everything else, because… I was not interested in it. Like now: I’m walking around, taking pictures of Belgrade, of some Eastern European things, I’m more interested in that. That’s why I didn’t consider life there. A tractor is driving there. A tractor. Look, how beautiful. I think I could be wrong, if so, I’ll write it in the caption. I think Jakab and Komor did that too. That pavilion on the water. In short, they’re geniuses. I complained that there were no people, they were all just hanging out here, where the tents are. They brought the kids out, it’s lunchtime now, they brought the kids out for walks. Apparently, from all the possible kindergartens in the area. Here are all sorts of historical photographs. A velocipede. After all, they call a bicycle a bicycle. Because I’ve only heard “bicycle” from them. Apparently, velocipede is some kind of outdated word. So. There, you see, look, there was a lot of activity. 1892. They are so classic: with moustaches and in striped shirts. But let’s take a closer look at this stately moustached man . Few people know, but the first Olympic Games could have been held not in Athens, but in Subotica. In 1880, 16 years before the revival of the Olympics, Baron Lajos Vermes held sports games in Palić. He was a wealthy landowner, athlete and enthusiast. He built stands, a cycling track, athletics tracks. And next to him were the first Olympic villas for the participants. At first, they competed in wrestling, jumping and shot put. Then they added swimming, gymnastics and cycling. The Games lasted until 1914. When the First World War began, they ended. The Baron spent his entire fortune on them and was left almost penniless, like Ferenc Reichl, whom I talked about in the video about Subotica. But history remembered him. In 1936, during the Olympic Games, at the age of 70, he carried the Olympic torch through Subotica. Lajos died in 1945. These villas around us are exactly those. And of course, the Vermes monument, as a reminder of a man who was ahead of his time. I tried to ride this bike . Penny-farthing, I think it was called. I fell three times out of three times and thought, well, no, you have to sit there and turn with your whole body. That is, not like we turn with a steering wheel now. Which is much more convenient, right? Here you have to swing your whole body in all directions. In short, a terrible thing. And I was still in Cossacks, in boots. It was three times more uncomfortable. School of Mechanization is written here. Such a stern man is standing there, in the background. Then we went there in 19 before Covid, just in the summer of 19. The last free summer. We went to the Czech Republic to see Metallica. Not only me and Natasha, but also my daughter Sasha. And Sasha was like, “That’s it, I want to study in the Czech Republic.” That’s how much the person liked it there. And, okay, so she went to Czech language courses, right when Covid was happening. Online courses. And you can study there for free. You only pay money for submitting documents, as far as I remember. She chose some universities for herself, studied the language and then “Bam!” Hello! Sanctions have arrived. And in the Czech Republic, of course, they have amazing politicians in the Czech Republic. I am amazed at those people. The only country, in my opinion, the only one that banned students from coming. How is that even possible? It didn’t work out for Sasha. But since Czech and Slovak are like Serbian and Croatian, she learned to the level of Slovak necessary for communication. And she went to Slovakia. And here they closed it for repairs. Well, and now they’ll restore it and it’ll be just awesome. Because, look, the water tower was also restored, as I understand it, it was in some similar condition. Boom, that’s a house. Did you want to live in one like that? Yeah, there’s that little tower at the top. You walk out with a mug of coffee: Ho-ho-ho! That was the plan from the start. She’s going to the Czech Republic, we’re going to Slovakia. Moreover, I even wrote to the Ukrainians who helped us move to Slovakia. And I wrote to the language school. And to the Slovak language school, we even agreed that I would edit a video for them. With motion graphics, with pop-up letters, words and stuff. But the war started, the school completely fell apart, they didn’t answer me. And I didn’t write back after that. The Ukrainians who were supposed to help us move said, damn, nothing makes sense here at all. Because Slovakia will impose sanctions. It won’t. There was chaos there. We’ve already forgotten about it. There was complete chaos. Sometimes they open bank accounts, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they take documents, sometimes they don’t. In short, it was total hell. Since my nerves were already at the limit, I just opened the map and was like, oh, so Serbia exists. It dawned on me! Like: that’s it. Now we’re going here without any questions, because it will definitely be good here. The Turkish flag is hanging there. At the yacht club. It turns out that we moved a little further south. Of the immigration zone we wanted to go to. We moved a little further south, but it’s still in Eastern Europe, so to speak, yes. Although Vojvodina is still considered central, part of central Europe. I saw a map somewhere that said it was central Europe. You could also say about Serbia that it was a hidden gift. Because how many times a day do you think about Serbia? If you think about emigration, for example. I don’t think so. And it turned out to be such a hidden-hidden diamond. There are many plans in my head, many different ideas, but as usual, probably only five percent of these ideas will be realized. But it’s good that there are many. Then, yes. There is still a choice. Even five percent is a lot, if you think about it. Well, and yes. Because back then there was some kind of extreme level of madness, and the politicians didn’t do anything better. People there smashed the windows in cars with Russian license plates, for example. We talked about this in the video about emigrants. In general, I understood that the further it went, the worse it could get. It didn’t turn out that way in the end, but it could have gotten better. Serbia, besides, that it is a politically friendly country and politicians will most likely not do any nonsense here, in addition to some historical and some spiritual, emotional background, there was also a practical interest in the fact that people even at the level of politicians will not do any nonsense. Most likely. And that’s what happened. It turns out I guessed right. There sits a heron and a fisherman. And the heron is waiting for something to fall into her lap. She looks at him without blinking. Well, let’s go towards the village. In general, that’s why Serbia was a conscious choice when there was no other choice. Let’s put it that way. Well, let’s: what are the plans and forecasts. But who the hell knows. Because in Serbia, first of all, there is a very, very light bureaucracy. It is simply incomparably lighter and more understandable and more logical than the bureaucracy in the same Europe. Well, I mean the Eurasian Union bureaucracy. In my opinion, it is a haven for world bureaucrats. People talk about how they process documents in France. It is simply the fumes of some kind of revelry. That is the first thing, and secondly: Everything is already clear. And the language has been learned to some minimal degree, so that you can more or less communicate with people. By the way, answering the question “Was it easy to learn Serbian?” If I had really studied it, that is, at least once a day for at least 20 minutes, I would have already mastered it like a native. But since I have no time at all, it turns out that I study, God willing, once a week, for 20 minutes. And with such a slovenly attitude to studies, I still managed to learn it normally, because the teacher is good. As far as I remember, he is a philologist, he has a course on Boosty, that is, it is also convenient, I sit down and watch in my free time. He is a philologist, and he learned Russian himself. He is Serbian. He learned Russian by comparing Serbian with Russian. And then, well, he packed all this knowledge into textbooks. And he teaches exactly like that. I mean, how are languages ​​usually taught? Like English, right? First the pronouns, then… Ah, first the letters. Then the pronouns, then the verb “to be”. It all goes very mathematically. And for some reason Serbian is taught exactly the same way, although it is very different from English. These are different languages, well, even different language groups. And he teaches exactly as a dialect of Russian. That is, it used to be one language, then they diverged into two sides, and now he teaches as a dialect. Well, like in Germany, yes, there is the Bavarian dialect, Figar and so on. It’s the same here. And this is his teaching method, that’s probably why I at least began to understand pretty quickly what they say to me. Simply because he does everything by comparison. This… I have never seen such a method anywhere, but he really succeeds. In any case, he managed to put something into my empty head. But I repeat, it’s not that I know Serbian. Unfortunately, yes. I know it, at a level of , well, God willing, B1. God willing, if B1. Although we have already managed to have philosophical and political conversations with the coach. So, after all, I probably know a little. So, what are your plans for the future? Plans for the future to drink some water, because my throat is dry. That and, as Artem said in the video about emigration. “My planning horizon is 2-3 days.” This is, of course, a joke, but there is some truth in every joke. Look, you and I went out just to the private sector, which also has a bike path. And here people are just fishing. Vineyards, or something? Looks like it. Plans… If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. That’s why I won’t tell you about my plans. Firstly, because they are pretty chaotic, yes, there is no clear understanding. And, secondly, well, let’s not make anyone laugh with our plans. Let’s see how everything works out. So far everything is working out very, very well. Regarding my friends from Ukraine, for example, who were treated for PTSD. What’s next for us? How did Denis and Ilya meet? By the way, this is getting back to the story, what got into my head, and I wrote to channel 78. It got into my head, I went to St. Petersburg. It’s the same here, basically, absolutely. I had already moved here. Natasha was still in St. Petersburg. I was alone. There weren’t even any cats. I was alone in an unfamiliar country, not knowing the language, knowing English. By the way, I know English better than Serbian. Until now. I was busy with paperwork. Rented an apartment , blah-blah-blah, residence permit. And when all this ended, the running around with the documents. It ended pretty quickly, because , I repeat, the bureaucracy here is pretty easy, and you don’t need to hire anyone to help you do everything yourself. Everything is very clear and written right on their website. On the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And that’s it, the running around is over. I want to do some motion design to post some template there, to post it on the stock. But I can’t, because I’m used to doing everything with a hitch, with fun. And I’m lying on the couch, and I’m sad. Well, depression has hit, which is what they talk about a lot. Immigrant depression. I’m lying on the couch, I don’t want anything. I made something to eat. I always want to cook something to eat. In this regard, Misha and I are very similar, I also love to cook and edit, and I also like how he cooks. Well, and, accordingly, I ate, I’m lying down. I’m looking at the ceiling. Well, what’s on YouTube? I refreshed and refreshed the page on the TV, there, in the app. And at some point , a video about the protests in New York popped up. Denis was walking around there, filming. And, I think, there was a burning car in the preview . I’m like, well, I’ll watch another report. At least from my old journalistic memory I remembered how to do it. I’m lying down watching. I’m so sad and gloomy that I don’t even touch the remote. That is, one of Denis’s videos ended, and then another one immediately followed 5 seconds later. And then YouTube slipped it to me in such a way that it turned into a whole series, which means that Denis first went to film this BLM in New York on the first day, then went to film on the second day, where they were already burning something. Well, and so I watched the 4th video. Damn, that’s cool. What else does he have on his channel? I went to the channel. And there was some video from inside either a New York apartment or some house, where the sound was simply disgusting. And, as an editor, this immediately made me cringe. Because the sound in the video is the most important thing. No matter how it sounds, but the sound in the video is more important than the video itself. Because you will be forgiven for a bad picture. And if people listen to what you say, they will not forgive you for that. Well, in short, I got so pissed off, yeah, what nonsense. And I turned it off. Here we have some kind of agricultural land. There further, all the way to the horizon, these are all agricultural fields. This is how I got acquainted with Denis’s work. The next day I woke up like this: Damn, I don’t feel like doing anything again. I sat down to make a template. I can’t do it either! Damn. Well, money isn’t unlimited, you have to earn it. You want to eat for something. I’m like , damn, nothing’s working out. That’s it, well, in short, I’m depressed. Totally depressed. I’m like, okay. I ‘ll go for a walk. I took a walk too, and while I was walking, I couldn’t help but write, actually, an idea came to me. Why not write, actually, to Denis. I could edit reports very easily. That’s all I did mostly. I was thinking: they don’t charge for asking. And they don’t hit you in the face either. So, I’ll write. I returned home already so cheerful, because I already had some kind of goal. Yeah, it doesn’t matter. Denis will answer me or not, I have a goal. To write. I wrote a resume. Right there, in 15 minutes. I remembered everything I could remember. But in fact, I didn’t remember even half of what I could have indicated there. Well, I sent what I remembered. It was pretty scary. I’ve never done anything like that. Usually everything goes to people I know. As my wife says: I was always passed from hand to hand. And here you’re standing there, you have to do something yourself. Am I doing the right thing when I write that I write myself? Maybe there’s some agency that does all this. Then I got so bold, I thought, I’ll write to everyone. That was the next day. Well, that’s it, I won’t go any further. Village, village, village. We’re going back. And I’ll write to everyone I’m watching. I wrote there, probably 20 letters. And just so you know, the first two letters that were stuck in my head were to send to Denis. They answered me. Misha wrote to me from Denis. I think it was almost the next day. He wrote in a telegram. By the way, it was a funny message. Yes, everything is correct, we’re looking for an editor. I’m like, yeah. Well, like, I didn’t know you were looking for an editor. I just wrote it like that. Holy shit, Misha is like that. Well, go ahead and make a test. I say, yes, I will, oh my God. I’m depressed. I’ll do anything, any job. And they sent me this video, which came out, I think, a year and a half after I made it. About the New Orleans Cemetery. This is exactly this video. This is my test. And I accidentally deleted the version that’s on YouTube – it’s the second build of the same thing. That is, I put it together from memory, like I put it together the first time. They really liked this video. Well, first of all, I was in such a state that, yes, perhaps I’ll take a walk around the cemetery. And there at the end, Denis, he was overcome with philosophy. He voiced such good thoughts, about life and death. They really touched me in that state of mine. That’s why such a soulful video turned out. Well, when I edited the final speech, I cried. Minus on minus gave me a plus. It was like therapy for me. That’s it, I was already cheerful. It seems to me that a cemetery is a place where you can clearly see that nothing is eternal. Even death is not eternal, which is the most interesting thing. Even death will turn to dust someday . And there will be no traces left of you , not to mention gravestones, nothing at all. That’s it, Misha writes that let’s go, that’s great, we’ll work. Since then, Misha, Denis and I have been working. Answering the question: How did we meet Varlamov? No way. He is a million-follower blogger with his own editorial office. That’s why I met the director first . But it was an ordinary response to a vacancy posted in telegram. I just filled in all the fields, did a test, sent it and that’s it. I didn’t work there for long, because what I was talking about, that I was tired of the media , and then I realized that I was tired of the media in principle. Not of the media themselves, but of the news. It started to make me depressed again, so we parted ways with friends, but if anything, I’m always ready to come back, because unlike channel 78, this editorial office of my dreams, of course, has good people working there, very nice. And most importantly, they are professional, no one will talk any nonsense to you. That’s why I met Varlamov, namely Ilya himself, after the fact in a chat. It’s just an absolutely businesslike communication, unlike Misha, Denis and there, Inoekino of the same. It’s not friendship, it didn’t develop into friendship and couldn’t develop into it, because it’s just an editorial office, it’s the media. It doesn’t work like that. Now I’ll take some more pictures of houses and read another question. How and where did your work with bloggers begin? I answered that too. Why did you choose Subotica, besides the cost of real estate? Everyone who was in immigration here, during the war. Everyone faced this, some went to Georgia, some went to Serbia, some went to other places, we, Armenia, Kazakhstan. We faced this crap that capitalism, yes, the market decides, so real estate prices have skyrocketed and what I liked about Serbia, I literally fell in love with it right away, was that their prices have also skyrocketed, but they didn’t freak out, like in Georgia, for example, when they ask you for some, roughly speaking, corner with garbage for a thousand euros . No, the Serbs didn’t freak out like that. They raised them a little, the locals grumbled, had a row, they lowered the prices a little, but they are still high, because the Russians haven’t gone anywhere, by and large. There are hundreds of thousands of us here , so the prices are still high, yes. And accordingly, another way to move to Serbia is a residence permit through real estate. The Russians started buying up real estate and the price per square meter increased. In Belgrade and Novy Sad, these are some incredible prices, just like in Madrid. In Subotica, everything is more or less fine, but it is already growing because they are launching a railway. Why did you choose Subotica? In fact, it was really only because of the real estate. Well, you need to buy an apartment. And this was the most normal option, that is, it is not a village. It is located on the border with Hungary, it is on the highway to Novi Sad, to Budapest, to Belgrade. And the prices are normal. The prices are adequate. Plus, plus here is Ruslan, a realtor who moved a long time ago. He was very helpful to immigrants. A chat was formed right away, naturally, by city, all these chats and so on. And he helped find apartments, and he found them for us right here, even at times before the war, at a cheap price. So no, here it is absolutely selfish interest and the interest of convenience. Trips to Europe and trips to Serbia and trips in general wherever you want. Plus, after all, the city of Subotica. This is not a city, for example, Sombor, where you really feel that… or Kikinda, that’s where we went. It’s really, it’s far from civilization. The locals hardly feel it like that? Well, some abandoned children’s camp, I suppose. The locals feel it all differently . But I After Russia, I have my own experience, and I feel it, like some city on the outskirts, not needed by anyone, where two buses a day go. Well, no thanks, guys. So here is Subotica. This is the best choice in terms of price and convenience. Well, plus, it turned out that we have a gorgeous, awesome neighbor. And now I go to the gym here and made friends with the fitness trainer. In general, everything, it was a good investment. But this would most likely be in any other city. The guys are walking around. In the bushes. Looking for caches. My experience in St. Petersburg tells me that this is how they look for caches. They don’t do that here. Thank God. That’s why it’s an absolutely selfish interest. Well, as it turned out, you see, Palic is nearby. Gorgeous. Next question. What’s the most delicious thing you’ve drunk in the last two or three years? This is a question from Bruno’s chat, apparently, yes. What’s the most delicious thing you’ve drunk in the last two or three years, and what’s wrong with Zbir? Zbir is a brewery in Novi Sad, which I was careless enough to reproach, that is, criticize in the video about Novi Sad, at the end of the video. Now I am reminded of this. But Zbir, as a brewery, I will start with this question. I will answer quickly , because not everyone is interested in this. It has very sweet beer, and it is all the same. That is, there are some sprinkles, as if there are, but in general it is just, damn, really the same. It is like sugar syrup, you just add this, add that, and you get different tastes of sugar syrup. But now I can say that out of three cans I took two Zbirs. So, probably, everything is fine with it. It became. It seems to me that it became, because really, when I moved to Novi Sad, well, the quality was just, well, some kind of acetone. Just acetone. And what was the most delicious thing you drank? Green tea. Serbia has big problems with tea. And some real Chinese green tea. That’s right. It turns out that it’s so delicious. When you’ve been drinking for a long, long time, well, when you get out of the habit, then you start drinking, it turns out that it’s so delicious. So green tea. And another plus is that we have a big terrace. And all sorts of things are grown there, including mint. And green tea with mint, that was the most delicious. Plus the pies that my Natasha made. I don’t remember what they were with. That tea was just awesome. That’s the most delicious thing I’ve ever drunk. I never thought of it. And also a funny sign. I just noticed it. I got up to read the questions and… Tell me that you’re in Serbia without telling me that you’re in Serbia. On horses and carts. You can’t. Got it. Good afternoon. Please tell us about Serbia from the point of view of the possibility of traveling around Europe with a Serbian residence permit or permanent residence. But these are already life hacks and such narrowly focused questions. A passport is a travel document. Therefore, having a Russian passport, it does not matter to you what territory you are in. You are perceived by your Russian passport. Therefore, there will be no free travel to the Schengen countries, for example. Simply because you have a residence permit, well, you have it, you have it. Your travel document is still Russian. But there are probably some advantages to this , after all, because the consulates of all countries are located here . And you can go to almost any consulate and they will issue you a visa. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They do not issue visas. Just as they do not issue them in Russia, they do not issue them here either. Well, let’s say, some Netherlands, for example. And Austria issues visas quite calmly. You write to them by email. Well, all the information is on the consulates’ websites. You have to write to the Spanish by email. So that they can send you a slot. It’s very inconvenient with the Hungarians, you have to catch a slot. They post them there at a random time twice a month. And that means this whole crowd of Russians catches a slot. Well, it’s different everywhere. In general, all this is indicated on the consulates’ websites. The convenience is that what’s the convenience? At first, of course, they were stunned. At first, of course, they were stunned, because the consulates were not designed for such a number of foreigners. And the Russians came in simply wild thousands , right in the thousands, even tens of thousands of Russians came. And the consulates were simply stunned. To process so many applications. Well, it seems like the Spanish, the Hungarians definitely coped with it. They introduced some of their own systems. The Hungarians are not very convenient, but it is convenient to follow through the visa chat. Let’s go here. What do we have here? Villa Palic. Therefore, it is no different from Russia in the sense that here there are only no visa centers, but simply consulates. But all the information is on the websites of these consulates. They are written down just for fools, because they are annoying, we see. I did the Hungarian, I did the Spanish. Hungarian, well, it is convenient. I have a consulate right here, consider it at the door. Going to Seget at the same time, an hour by train. And the Spanish, Yes, it is in Belgrade, this is the consulate. You collect the same package of documents, you just need to attach an additional reason why you are in Serbia. That is, a residence permit, if you work, then a work contract. And there was a question about a car. I am not a car enthusiast or a car professional, so it is difficult for me to say anything about this. Villa Luisa, as I understand it, is a guest house. I came to hang out in a house like this with a view of the lake. As for cars there, well, everything is more expensive than we are used to in Russia. Much more expensive, as far as I know, like insurance for a year costs a thousand euros or something. Well, if you saw the video about immigration, about the bar, then Artem drives with Russian license plates. He moved two and a half years ago and he drives with Russian license plates. So there are no problems with this . You just need to change your license. Within six months, as far as I know, you need to change your license to a local one. And that’s it, overall there are no problems. The guys drive used cars from Europe. I repeat, I am not a car enthusiast. I don’t understand anything there at all. I just tell you what I saw in the chats. In chats, people, yes, drive cars from Europe, buy some here and that’s it, well, I don’t know, usually. Except for the prices. Yes, fuel is expensive here, insurance is expensive here . In general, if we go back to the conversation about traveling around Europe, then, of course, doing it from Serbia is just fucking convenient. It depends on where you live, yes, that is, in Belgrade it is more profitable to catch a sale on airline tickets. I know that there are airline tickets to Italy for 10 euros, 15 euros. Well, that is, it is cheaper than I would take the bus, I am from Subotica to Belgrade. If you live somewhere, for example, like us, on the border with Hungary, then it is easier, of course, to travel by train. And from there, as you wish, you go further by train. There are railways everywhere there. If you live, for example, somewhere on the border Romania, it is more convenient through Romania. Well, and so on. In general, Serbia is in the center. And it is an ideal place for traveling, especially if, of course, you do not need a visa. Where can you go without a visa? To Bosnia/Herzegovina and Montenegro. That’s it. Anyway, thank you for walking with us today. With me and with agent Cooper. Around Palic. There it is, wonderful. I hope I have not tired you with my emigrant stories. I will cut it down, it will be good. And the big version will be on Boosty. I think it will be. That’s it , bye everyone. I am still trying to find those old ladies on the bench. Oh, there they are! They were in the most obvious place, but I never saw them. By the end of the video, I found the old ladies I was talking about in the middle. Or not old ladies, I don’t know who they are. Maybe just some women. They have such expressions on their faces, as if they were old ladies. One of them even fell asleep. The second one also fell asleep. Just like old women. Two old women are sleeping on the shore of Lake Palich.