During the conversation, Shuster spoke on the following topics:
- why is the illegitimate president of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, making an information ghetto out of the country;
- will there be protests in Russia and what could they lead to;
- what happened to the Russian blogger who criticized Putin;
- What happened to freedom of speech under the previous presidents of Ukraine;
- was there a conversation with Putin when he was kicking Shuster out of Russia;
- what was the first thing propagandist Vladimir Solovev did after Shuster left and why he was jealous of him;
- how long will the war in Iran last and how will it affect Ukraine and Russia;
- whether the moratorium on the assassination of country leaders has been lifted.
Shuster was born in 1952 in Vilnius (Lithuania). In 1971, he emigrated to Canada with his parents. In 1976 he graduated from the Faculty of Biochemistry and Physiology at McGill University in Montreal, after which he moved to Italy. Since 1978 he has been engaged in journalism. Covered military operations in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Nicaragua, Chad for Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Libération, La Repubblica.
In 1988 he began collaborating with Radio Liberty, and from 1996-2001 he headed the Moscow office of the radio station. In the Russian Federation, he also worked for NTV, where he hosted the programs “Freedom of Speech”, “Hero of the Day” and commentated on Champions League football matches.
From 2005 to 2022 he worked in Ukraine. His shows were aired on the channels ICTV, “Inter”, “First National”, “Channel 24”, “112 Ukraine”, “1+1”, “Ukraine”.
