He was a member of the CPSU, but in the days of the putsch in 1991 he left the party, supporting Boris Yeltsin and the idea of a new Russia.

[2] Since 1992, freelance collaborates with television, commenting on football matches and driving sports programs.

The first report was from the draw of the final part of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, held in December 1993 in Las Vegas, USA.

[3] Since the 1990s, at different times a correspondent for the sports editorial office of RIA Novosti, editor-in-chief of the monthly football magazine 'Match', press attaché of the CSKA Ice Hockey Club Russian Penguins,[4] a press attaché of the Russian national football team in 1998 and at the 1994 FIFA World Cup,[5] from the beginning of the 90s the lead author of the column in the English soccer magazine World Soccer.

In March 2024, Gusev was in the crowd with his wife during the Crocus City Hall attack, he escaped unharmed.