Ukraine’s top political talk show Shuster Live was cut off the air on Ukraine’s leading Channel 1+1 right before the program was supposed to start.

The controversial decision of

the channel’s administration has received a strident backlash from Savic

Shuster, the show’s host, who compared the situation to late November 2013,

when his show was canceled during President Viktor Yanukovych’s authoritative

rule that ended on Feb. 22, 2014, with the EuroMaidan Revolution.