1. Savik Shuster is a journalist and television anchor.
16 Facts About Savik Shuster
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Savik Shuster presented The Freedom By Savik Shuster, and starting in 2005, Svoboda slova, on ICTV.
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In 2019, Shuster came back to Ukraine as the anchor of Svoboda slova Savika Shustera on the Ukraina television channel.
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From 2001 to 2004, Shuster presented talk shows on the Russian channel NTV.
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In 1973 Savik Shuster began a Bachelors at McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1976 with a medical degree.
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Savik Shuster then moved to Florence in Italy to continue his studies.
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In 1980 Savik 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.
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Shortly after Savik Shuster started to write for French newspaper Liberation and the Italian magazine Frigidaire.
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Addition: Savik Shuster studied at the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry since 1972.
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Radio Liberty said that, by continuing with his program at NTV, Savik Shuster had violated its professional code and policy over conflicts of interests.
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Weeks after Gazprom's takeover, Savik Shuster began anchoring NTV's "Hero of the Day" interview show and then "Svoboda Slova".
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From May 2005 Savik Shuster hosted "Freedom of Speech" talk show on ICTV.
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In July 2009 Savik Shuster broke ties with the production company, which was renamed to Istil Studios.
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In September 2009 Savik Shuster claimed "unknown people" tried to sabotage the airing of his program "Savik Shuster Live".
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In January 2011 all Savik Shuster programs moved to Pershyi Natsionalnyi.
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Since February 2013 "Savik Shuster Live" was again aired on Inter TV.