Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.
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I lived in America. I love America.
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Twitter has revealed some monstrous information in Congress: we spent money on our ad campaigns. Just as all the usual media organizations in the world do.
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I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.
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There's a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.
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RT did not support Trump.
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There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any country. We have private owned networks; some of them are oppositional. We have thousands of regional networks that, in their regions, are more watched than the so-called federal stations.
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In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.
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All of the mainstream French media - all of them - were jumping out of their pants to make people vote for Macron - all of them.
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All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'
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Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum.
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I'm so tired of this argument that all we ever do is under Kremlin orders and so and so forth. Tell me, how is it possible? I am not on the air. If you watch RT, you will see that all of our shows are hosted by people to whom it would be impossible to tell them anything.
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Our job is to tell the world about Russia and to report world news from a Russian viewpoint.
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We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it.
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The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized.
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RT was one of the first channels to cover the Wikileaks story and to interview Julian Assange a long time ago, way before it made headlines around the globe.
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Immigrants are not the real problem. The real problem is much more serious: intolerance and hatred of indigenous ethnic groups. You can prohibit immigration, but what can you do about non-Russian ethnic groups living in their native territories in Russia?
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I don't like wars. Any wars.
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If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.
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We want to develop into a really trusted name that people turn to because they want to know what's going on in the country.
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When the world normalizes, everything is going to be fine with RT. When the U.S. and Russia get along again - and I don't see any deep reasons why we shouldn't get along... we are going to work normally like a normal news organization.
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I have two children, and I'm very, very peaceful.
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There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.
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The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.