During the interview, Batsman and Feigin discussed:
- the strategy of the elected U.S. President Donald Trump and whether he will continue to support Ukraine;
- the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas and New Orleans, which may signal impending changes with Trump's arrival;
- Moscow's preparation for strikes against Japan and South Korea;
- the visit of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Alexander Syrskiy, to the Kursk region (Russia);
- secret negotiations and the likelihood of a meeting between Trump and the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 30;
- the significance of nuclear weapons for Ukraine;
- the poisoning of the ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad in Moscow with "Novichok";
- why the Russian authorities chose not to kill the fugitive Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Feigin was born in 1971 in Kuibyshev (now Samara). He graduated from the law faculty of Samara State University, the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He holds a PhD in law.
During his student years, he participated in the political life of Samara and was a member of the Democratic Union party. From 1994 to 1995, he served as a deputy in the State Duma of the I convocation. From 1997 to 2007, he was the vice-mayor of Samara. In the 1990s, he obtained status as a lawyer but began practicing law in the 2000s.
Feigin gained widespread recognition as one of the lawyers for the members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. Following the start of Russian aggression, he defended the interests of several well-known Ukrainian citizens who were held on Russian territory or against whom criminal cases were initiated in absentia, including the leader of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev, former pilot Nadiya Savchenko, and journalist Roman Sushchenko.
In 2018, Feigin was stripped of his lawyer status in Russia, in 2022, he was included in the list of "foreign agents," in 2023, he was declared wanted, and in 2024, he was initially arrested in absentia in a case regarding "fakes" about the actions of Russian occupiers in Ukraine, and then sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony.
Currently, Feigin is engaged in blogging and developing his YouTube channel "Feigin LIVE," which has nearly 2 million subscribers.