Savik Shuster
| Savik Shuster Са́вік Шу́стер |
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Shuster during a 2007 press conference
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Ševelis Šusteris Шевелис Шустерис November 22, 1952 Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | ? (first wife) Olga Nevskaya (second wife) |
| Children | Artem (stepson) |
Savik Shuster (Russian: Са́вик Шу́стер, Ukrainian: Са́вік Шу́стер, born Ševelis Šusteris; November 22, 1952 in Vilnius) is a journalist and host of Ukrainian TV shows. He presented The Freedom By Savik Shuster and starting in 2005 Shuster Live on Pershyi Natsionalnyi. From December 2015 he produces and lead political talk shows on his independent 3S.tv, after he has been cancelled from several tycoon-owned TVs. In December 2016 3S.tv went bankrupt and on 1 March 2017 the channel stopped broadcasting.
From 2001 till 2004 Shuster presented talk shows on the Russian NTV channel.
Shuster holds Canadian and Italian citizenships.
Born in Vilnius (then part of the Soviet Union now the capital of Lithuania) Shuster left the Soviet Union 1971, his parents (his father was a football coach) emigrated from their native Vilnius via Israel to Canada. A distant uncle, who was vice president of the oil company Shell Canada, intervened with Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin on their behalf. In 1976 Shuster graduated from McGill University in Montreal, with a medical degree. He then moved to Florence in Italy to continue his studies. There, he began writing for a local newspaper after realizing that he "did not like sick people". In 1980 Shuster worked for three months with a French humanitarian organization that was working on the side of the anti-Soviet mujahedin in Afghanistan, there he met Newsweek magazine's Asia editor and was offered a chance to write a few articles for them. Shortly after Shuster started to write for French newspaper Libération and the Italian magazine Frigidaire.
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