Moscow, June 26 (Sputnik) – Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya and RT, Told Sputnik Radio that she would love to see the WikiLeaks founder back on air.

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.