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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.
Margarita Simonyan -
It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.
Margarita Simonyan
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The U.S. has made a lot of mistakes all over the world... look at Iraq. The country that makes such mistakes do not have the moral right to teach the world.
Margarita Simonyan -
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.
Margarita Simonyan -
Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.
Margarita Simonyan -
We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.
Margarita Simonyan -
American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.
Margarita Simonyan -
When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.
Margarita Simonyan
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When Russia is at war, we are, of course, on Russia's side.
Margarita Simonyan -
We removed 'Russia Today' from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.
Margarita Simonyan -
Not too many people out there are interested in Russia so much that they really want to watch things about Russia and only about Russia.
Margarita Simonyan -
If you look at any station, you will see that what people are reporting comes from what they believe in, where they stand, their background, what their countries believe in.
Margarita Simonyan -
If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like that, we immediately put them onto a list of people who are forbidden from the air.
Margarita Simonyan -
Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.
Margarita Simonyan