During the interview, Batsman and Feigin discussed:
- the authorization for Ukraine to use American missiles to strike Russian territory and why U.S. President Joe Biden made this decision only now;
- North Korea's direct involvement in Russia's war against Ukraine and the potential consequences for it;
- Russia's updated nuclear doctrine;
- the call from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to the illegitimate President of Russia, Vladimir Putin;
- Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential elections and what his plan for Ukraine might entail;
- when Ukraine might be able to reclaim all its territories.
"Ukraine does not have sufficient resources to liberate its territory up to the borders of 1991, but then the diplomatic mechanism comes into play. We just have to wait for Putin to die, for chaos to begin in Russia, which is inevitable, unavoidable, and fatal for Moscow and its system. Only then will all this be resolved differently," Feigin stated.
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 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. He holds a PhD in law.
During his student years, he was active 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 first convocation. From 1997 to 2007, he was the vice-mayor of Samara. In the 1990s, he obtained the status of 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. After the onset of Russian aggression, he defended the interests of several well-known Ukrainian citizens held by Russia or who were charged 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 added to the list of "foreign agents," in 2023 he was put on the wanted list, and in 2024 he was arrested in absentia in a case concerning "fakes" about the actions of Russian occupiers in Ukraine, and subsequently sentenced to 11 years in a penal colony.
Currently, Feigin is engaged in blogging and is developing his YouTube channel "Feigin LIVE," which has nearly 2 million subscribers.