Quotes from Margarita Simonyan

I have two children, and I'm very, very peaceful.

One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum, 'Russia' became the buzzword in the U.S. election that the political and media establishments thought would scare people into voting for the status quo.

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!'

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.

Somehow it did not occur to us that, in a developed democracy, regular media advertising could turn out to be a suspicious and harmful activity.

The information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

It's impossible to start making a weapon only when the war already started!

Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent.

We removed 'Russia Today' from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.

The disgusting truth is that some of the less-educated families in the Caucasus hate and despise Russians simply because they are Russian, just as some less-educated Russian families feel the same way about people from the Caucasus.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

There's a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.

RT was one of the first channels to cover the Wikileaks story and to interview Julian Assange a long time ago, way before it made headlines around the globe.

Immigrants are not the real problem. The real problem is much more serious: intolerance and hatred of indigenous ethnic groups. You can prohibit immigration, but what can you do about non-Russian ethnic groups living in their native territories in Russia?

When we were a quiet, little-noticed channel telling stories from Russia, our audience was negligible. When we started being really provocative... our audience started to grow.

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

Not a single story on 'BBC World News' is any different from the British foreign policy.

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 work in the U.S.: Withdrawal of Congressional credentials speaks much louder than empty platitudes.

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

Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.

It is high time Western establishments stopped blaming Russia for all their problems.

The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent, the director of our company in America could be arrested, and the accounts of the company could be seized.

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

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.