Simonyan expressed hope that one day she would be able to talk to Assange again and that he will be able to return to active life.
“I hope that he will return to his active life, and I hope that he will return to us [RT] on air. If you remember, before all this happened to him, 12 years ago back in 2012, he hosted an RT program, a beautiful, brilliant program, we will be happy to bring it back,” she noted.
The editor-in-chief also called Assange today’s best journalist and a visionary, and suggested that he should write a book.
Commenting on the high-profile court hearing, Simonyan said that once it is over, nothing will change when it comes to free press and freedom of speech — neither in the US nor in the rest of the world.
“No, nothing is going to change, it is a game of politics. At a certain point Biden found it [releasing Assange] necessary to get certain votes. If there was no election [US presidential election], he [Assange] would not have been released,” she stressed.