67 Quotes by Margarita Simonyan

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

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.

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

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.

We want to develop into a really trusted name that people turn to because they want to know what's going on in the country.

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.

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.

Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.

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