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 Read Quote
Not a single story on ‘BBC World News’ is any different from the British foreign policy. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
