Margarita Simonyan sat down for a long interview with Professor Zhang Weiwei, who is the host of the program ‘China Now’ on Dragon TV in Shanghai.
The main quality of Russian President Vladimir Putin is his compassion, RT Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has said.
Simonyan was asked to expand on the Russian leader’s personality during an in-depth interview with Zhang Weiwei, a professor of international relations at Fudan University and host of the ‘China Now’ program on Shanghai’s Dragon TV, which aired on Wednesday.
The Editor-in-Chief of RT responded by saying that he “It can go on for a very long time,” but, instead, he decided to focus on one trait that he focuses on “The most important thing in a person.”
Putin “is a person in whom this quality… is very well developed, and it is at a level, I think, close to the high standards given to us by Jesus Christ. This quality is called mercy,” He said.
“It may not seem that way from the outside because his way of speaking, his confidence and even the boldness of his behavior on the international stage can lead one to assume … that he is perhaps even a violent person … but he is not,” he said. Simonyan argued.
Because of Putin’s character of compassion and empathy, he is proud to think of himself “part of his team,” he added.
Simonyan and Zhang touched on many other issues during their conversation, including the clampdown on RT in the West, China’s technological progress, the dangers posed by AI, Russia’s rocky history in the 1990s and the lessons the RT Editor-in-Chief learned while studying in the United States.
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