During the same years, Štětina wrote his most famous book, S matyldou po Indu, on the topic of rafting.

In 1990 he began working as a foreign correspondent in Moscow, where he covered numerous conflicts in the former Soviet Union.

In 1994, he founded the journalism agency Epicentrum, dedicated to war reporting, with fellow journalist Petra Procházková.

In the 2004 elections to the Czech Senate, Štětina ran as an independent candidate under the umbrella of the Green Party.

On 11 February 2019, he founded his own political party, Europe Together (Czech: Evropa společně),[3][4] to contest the 2019 European Parliament elections.