Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
We would like to be the third-most-watched news channel in the U.K. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
We congratulate American freedom of speech and all who still believe in it. — Margarita Simonyan American freedom Copy Share Image
It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started! — Margarita Simonyan Art making Copy Share Image
It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
When the USSR collapsed, I was 11, and unlike many people, I don't miss it. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
Our job is to tell the world about Russia and to report world news from a Russian viewpoint. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
What's obvious is that the U.S. has a very imperfect system, and yet its leaders are obsessed with lecturing the rest of… — Margarita Simonyan America Copy Share Image
I don't understand why any country is given a chance to make its point of view seen and heard by the world,… — Margarita Simonyan Chance Copy Share Image
There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country… — Margarita Simonyan Country Copy Share Image
The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our… — Margarita Simonyan Being Copy Share Image
RT was one of the first channels to cover the Wikileaks story and to interview Julian Assange a long time ago, way… — Margarita Simonyan Interview Copy Share Image
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… — Margarita Simonyan Communication Copy Share Image
One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum,… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause… — Margarita Simonyan Christianity Copy Share Image
In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech,… — Margarita Simonyan Communication Copy Share Image
America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager… — Margarita Simonyan America Copy Share Image
There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of this argument that all we ever do is under Kremlin orders and so and so forth. Tell me,… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent,… — Margarita Simonyan America Copy Share Image
If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing. — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
Twitter has revealed some monstrous information in Congress: we spent money on our ad campaigns. Just as all the usual media organizations… — Margarita Simonyan Congress Copy Share Image
Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious… — Margarita Simonyan Advertising Copy Share Image
British media supported Hillary. No problem with that. No interference. Nothing. French media supported Hillary. No problem with that. Some Russian media… — Margarita Simonyan British Copy Share Image
If we do have people appearing on the air live that are later found out to be Holocaust deniers or anything like… — Margarita Simonyan Copy Share Image
