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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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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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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When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.
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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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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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When Russia is at war, we are, of course, on Russia's side.
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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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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.