Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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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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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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There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.
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It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!
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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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Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.
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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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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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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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I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.
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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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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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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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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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America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do more and more. The whole nation - Russian nation was like, 'Tell us what else we can do to please you. We want to be like you. We love you.' And then in 1999, bam. You bomb Yugoslavia. And that was the end of it.
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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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You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.
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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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All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.