In our time, I don't believe there can be a full-scale hot war like the Second World War, nor a long Cold War, but a war of a third type. It will be … - Margarita Simonyan

You're telling us that you're defending democracy. Mr. Biden, what kind of democracy is it when they are closing down one television channel after another and imprisoning their political opponents, because they can’t hold on to power in any other way?

Why is there this constant talk of war? It's as if [the West] really wants us to destroy this unfortunate Ukraine. In Russia there is no war hysteria. We do have an anti-war movement, but we have no pro-war movement. It's surprising. The Americans say 'no, you must invade. We know it for a fact.'

If Lindsey Graham really said that the money for the killing of Russians is the best money the US ever spent . . . I hope that in our country, the sons or grandchildren of Sudoplatov are alive, his pupils, or the descendants of his pupils [...] It’s not even hard. We have his address.