Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of the world on how to organise their affairs.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

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.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

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.

Margarita Simonyan
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
Margarita Simonyan

When the world normalizes, everything is going to be fine with RT. When the U.S. and Russia get along again - and I don't see any deep reasons why we shouldn't get along... we are going to work normally like a normal news organization.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

I lived in America. I love America.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

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.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

There is just a small difference between the United States and Russia - Russia does not teach the whole world democracy.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

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!'

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

RT did not support Trump.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

I'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

Margarita Simonyan
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
Margarita Simonyan

All of the mainstream French media - all of them - were jumping out of their pants to make people vote for Macron - all of them.

Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan

All of the people who work in the Russian government and Russian presidential administration, in this way or another, work for Vladimir Putin.