Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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We never make editorial decisions with people who are working closely with Vladimir Putin, unless you consider myself a person who is working closely with Vladimir Putin.
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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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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the television businesses found it was easier to hire 16- or 18-year-olds and teach them everything from the beginning rather than re-teach the old-school folk.
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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.
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We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.
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Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.
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American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news.
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When Russia is at war, we are, of course, on Russia's side.
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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.
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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.
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When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.
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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.
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We removed 'Russia Today' from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.
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Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.