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 Read Quote
Being government funded does not necessarily mean being biased, just like being privately funded does not necessarily mean being independent. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
There is state-run television in Russia, which is more loyal to the state, as it always is with state television in any country. We have private owned networks; some of them are oppositional. We have thousands of regional networks that, in their regions, are more watched than the so-called federal stations. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
Mainstream media journalists, especially in the United States and West Europe, prefer to ignore those problems in their own countries which they usually criticize in other countries, including in Russia. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
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. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
Our job is to tell the world about Russia and to report world news from a Russian viewpoint. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
American TV news is much more sophisticated. I think that American TV networks, it looks like, they invest a lot into news. Margarita Simonyan Read Quote
