--- title: Dmitry Kiselyov url: https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/dmitry-kiselyov/ description: 5 verified quotes from Dmitry Kiselyov, Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, with sources. section: FRAME --- ![Illustration: a contemporary investigator's evidence wall of printed social-media posts, network diagrams and a pinned world map, in the same dossier style as the rest of the archive.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/detail/hero-contemporary-evidence-wall.jpg) [Quotes](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/) · Russia # Dmitry Kiselyov ![Dmitry Kiselyov, October 2019](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/images/putin-government/dmitry-kiselyov.jpg) [Photo](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2_(cropped).jpg): State Duma press service (duma.gov.ru), CC BY 4.0 Director General of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency · Russia On the regime page: [Russian Federation under Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/putin-government/#dmitry-kiselyov) 5 quotes, oldest first. [Filter with other speakers](https://propagandaarchive.org/quotes/#speaker=dmitry-kiselyov). 1. **Content note:** Demeaning statement about gay people The words are shown as they were said or written. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) — > “[Gays] should be prohibited from donating blood or sperm. And their hearts, in case they die in a car accident, should be buried or burned as unfit for extending anyone's life.” — English: English as quoted by RFE/RL, 'From Burning Hearts To Civil Unions: The Unlikely Evolution Of Dmitry Kiselyov'. Original-language text not found. — April 2012 · Broadcast · Russian television programme (title not stated in sources read) Verified (secondary source) — Kiselyov was commenting on a proposed law on fines for 'propaganda' of homosexuality, saying that fines were not enough. A video of the remark circulated widely in 2013, when Kiselyov told reporters he did not regret it. — Remarks by Dmitry Kiselyov on a television programme in April 2012, as reported by RFE/RL and NTV (ntv.ru/novosti/643087) [Source](https://www.rferl.org/a/dmitry-kiselyov-civil-unions-lgbt-unlikely-evolution/27102541.html) 2. > “The period of impartial journalism is over. Objectivity is a myth that we have been offered; it has been imposed on us.” — English: English as quoted by EUvsDisinfo, 'A Disillusioned Democrat'. Original-language text not found. — December 2013 · Speech · Moscow, address to staff of Rossiya Segodnya Verified (secondary source) — Kiselyov had just been named head of the state agency created by presidential decree to replace RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. He was also deputy director general of the state broadcaster VGTRK. — First address by Dmitry Kiselyov to staff of the new international news agency Rossiya Segodnya, December 2013, as reported by EUvsDisinfo and StopFake [Source](https://euvsdisinfo.eu/a-disillusioned-democrat/) 3. **Content note:** Threat of nuclear use The words are shown as they were said or written. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) — > “Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash” — Original (Russian) — Россия – единственная страна в мире, которая реально способна превратить США в радиоактивный пепел — English: English as quoted by Breitbart News, 16 March 2014; Russian as quoted by Fontanka.ru, 17 March 2014 — March 16, 2014 · Broadcast · Moscow, Vesti Nedeli, Rossiya-1 Verified (secondary source) — Broadcast on the day of the Crimea referendum. Kiselyov went on to describe the Soviet-era 'Perimeter' automatic retaliation system (Fontanka.ru). Breitbart reports he stood before a graphic of a mushroom cloud. — Dmitry Kiselyov on Vesti Nedeli, Rossiya-1, 16 March 2014, as reported by Fontanka.ru and Breitbart News [Source](https://www.fontanka.ru/2014/03/17/67784068/) 4. > “Russia is once again taking on the mission of driving Nazism out of Europe.” — English: English as quoted by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), Kyiv, 'Info crimes. Dmitry Kiselyov', 12 December 2022. Original-language text not found. — February 27, 2022 · Broadcast · Moscow, Vesti Nedeli, Rossiya-1 Verified (secondary source) — Aired three days after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian officials described the war's aims as the 'denazification' of Ukraine; Ukraine's government and most other governments reject that description. — Dmitry Kiselyov on Vesti Nedeli, Rossiya-1, 27 February 2022, as reported by IMI [Source](https://imi.org.ua/en/monitorings/info-crimes-dmytro-kiselyov-who-is-he-and-how-dangerous-he-is-i49666) 5. > “If it weren’t for our intervention now, then in three years Ukraine would be in NATO thanks to the American billions, with a completely different army, with NATO bases, NATO ports and NATO troops on Ukraine’s territory. They would have missiles with a range that would be lethal for us, and have the status of a nuclear state on top of that. They would have an atomic bomb, so to speak.” — English: English as quoted by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI), Kyiv, 'Info crimes. Dmitry Kiselyov', 12 December 2022. Original-language text not found. — March 13, 2022 · Broadcast · Moscow, Vesti Nedeli, Rossiya-1 Verified (secondary source) — Kiselyov gave a self-defence justification for the invasion of Ukraine, three weeks after it began. IMI prints the passage as one quotation that continues with a further account of Ukraine's possible future. — Dmitry Kiselyov on Vesti Nedeli, Rossiya-1, 13 March 2022, as reported by IMI [Source](https://imi.org.ua/en/monitorings/info-crimes-dmytro-kiselyov-who-is-he-and-how-dangerous-he-is-i49666)