St. PETERSBURG, June 17 Chief editor of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT channel Margarita Simonyan, after the end of the session with Russian President Vladimir Putin at SPIEF, said that confidence came from the head of state, which had a psychotherapeutic effect on her. Simonyan moderated the discussion at the plenary session of the forum with the participation of Russian leader and President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev. The most important thing for me was criticism of the West — this is not the first time we hear this and we say it ourselves, for me it was not so much the speech as the emotion that I felt <…> It is clear that the person is calm, confident, in a great mood , very benevolent. People do not behave like this, people who are not sure of their victory and that everything will be fine do not spread such emotion around them, «she told reporters. According to her, everything was important in Putin's speech, but for her personally, it was necessary to hear that «people who want to be with us will stay with us.» international economic forum 2022Putin and Simonyan exchanged jokes about the end of the plenary session of the SPIEF Speaking about the reaction of the West to the statements of the Russian president, Simonyan noted that it does not matter whether Putin was heard in the US and Europe, since this will not change the current policy.Jubilee, XXV St. Petersburg International the economic forum is being held in St. Petersburg from 15 to 18 June. RIA Novosti is the media partner of the event.
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