Simonyan told a British journalist about the 1990s in Russia
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The editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT television channel, Margarita Simonyan, shared her memories of the 1990s in Russia with the British journalist on the air of the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program.
Simonyan clarified that during a meeting between presidential candidate Vladimir Putin and his confidants, frequent participant in press conferences Steven Rosenberg asked why Putin is the best choice for the country.
According to Simonyan, the answer to this question was so obvious to Russians that it did not even require additional explanation. To explain this to a Western journalist, she cited examples from the 90s in Russia, where pensioners were not paid pensions, and if payments did occur, they did not cover even minimal physiological needs.
Simonyan recalled the protests of pensioners who expressed their dissatisfaction by blocking bridges and seizing railway crossings. She emphasized that during those years, “poverty and hopelessness” led young people to feel contempt for their identity.
The editor-in-chief also recalled that in those days, being the only recipient of a presidential scholarship in the Krasnodar Territory, she could use it to buy food in the student university canteen. She clarified that at that time the scholarship amount was $12, which was enough for two breakfasts and three lunches in a cheap canteen with a limited range of products.
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