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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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 lived in America. I love America.
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All of our anchors begin their shows with 'Hello from Moscow.'
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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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I don't like wars. Any wars.
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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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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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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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When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow.
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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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I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.
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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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When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.
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British media supported Hillary. No problem with that. No interference. Nothing. French media supported Hillary. No problem with that. Some Russian media supported Trump: 'Oh my God!'
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RT did not support Trump.
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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 have two children, and I'm very, very peaceful.
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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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I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.
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Media outlets do not exist in a vacuum.
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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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Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.
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The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.