Margarita Simonyan

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

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

If I saw and if I really sincerely thought that what Putin is doing is harmful for my country and for my people and it needs to be stopped, I wouldn't hesitate to do that.

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

America had Russia wrapped around it little pinky through the whole '90s. We did everything you told us. And we were eager to do more and more. The whole nation - Russian nation was like, 'Tell us what else we can do to please you. We want to be like you. We love you.' And then in 1999, bam. You bomb Yugoslavia. And that was the end of it.

I lived in America. I love America.

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 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.

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.

When Russia is at war, we are, of course, on Russia's side.

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

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.