Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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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.
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It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!
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Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.
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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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There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.
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Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.
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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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It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
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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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I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.
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Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia.
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The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.
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The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.
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To all the self-righteous defenders of 'freedom of speech' who oh-so-ardently proclaimed that FARA registration places no restrictions whatsoever on RT's journalistic work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.
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One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum, 'Russia' became the buzzword in the U.S. election that the political and media establishments thought would scare people into voting for the status quo.
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Apparently, all foreign media organisations have to follow an approved script of acceptable coverage, lest they are accused of interference. And make no mistake: we're not talking about neutrality. The only acceptable approach was, 'Support Clinton, attack Trump'.
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I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world, and Russia is not given that chance.
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We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K.
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Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.
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All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.
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You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.
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It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.
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If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.
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It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.