MARGARITA SIMONYAN

In the U.S., the country that has always been lecturing the world about the value of freedoms - of freedom of speech, of everyone's right to speak up - the U.S. has now become a beacon, a leader, in this movement to shut everyone up. That's so disappointing.

The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.

It's time to wake up to the reality that ignoring the genuine concerns of the 'fringe,' until it becomes the majority, is patently ridiculous. That the scapegoating of alternative opinions doesn't work.

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.

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

When the world normalizes, everything is going to be fine with RT. When the U.S. and Russia get along again - and I don't see any deep reasons why we shouldn't get along... we are going to work normally like a normal news organization.

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.

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.

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'm a journalist. I've been a journalist ever since I was 18.

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

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

Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.

I don't like wars. Any wars.

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

If all the media are singing one song, it gets dangerous; it really does.

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.

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

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

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.

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

All of the mainstream French media - all of them - were jumping out of their pants to make people vote for Macron - all of them.

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

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

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.