Margarita Simonyan Quotes
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?
Simonyan, Margarita. В Москву! [To Moscow!]. AST, 2010.
Ernestine Louise Polowsky
Andrew Macdonald
The hatred of the right wing Croats and Serbs is so great for each other, that these two Christian groups find it hard fo have any sort of communication and accommodation of each others. In addition to the traditional religious enmity, during WWII, the Croats were Nazi Allies and created and ran a concentration camp where Serbs were killed and abused.
The Armenians were victims of ethnic cleansing where some were chased out and others killed in nearby Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan. The Armenians in turn have been persecuting those Armenian citizens who culturally identify or have origins in Nakhijevan or Azerbaijan. The hatred is so great that in this quotation the President of Armenia claims that the Government cannot protect the minorities because the minorities persecuted the Armenians in those countries where the Armenians were a minority. The conflict is also religious. Armenians are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christians while Nakhijevan and Azerbaijan are predominantly Muslim. Ethnically the Armenians were almost all exterminated in the early
The amazing thing about this quotation of 1913 is that at the end of the 20th century the Christians were again at the Muslims throats and Bosnian Muslims were being murdered and ethnically cleansed by the Roman Catholics of Croatia and the Eastern Orthodox Christians of Serbia. The hatred had persisted—the legacy of 1000 years before.
Margarita Simonovna Simonyan is a Russian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the English-language television news network RT (formerly Russia Today) and of the state-owned international news agency Rossiya Segodnya.