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Margarita Simonyan
Margarita Simonyan | |
|---|---|
| Маргарита Симоньян | |
_(cropped).jpg) Simonyan in 2017 | |
| Born | Margarita Simonovna Simonyan 6 April 1980 Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Alma mater | Kuban State University |
| Occupation | Editor-in-chief |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4 |
Margarita Simonovna Simonyan[a] (born 6 April 1980) is a Russian media executive. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT,[1][2][3] as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya.[4]
Simonyan covered the Second Chechen War in the 2000s while working as a journalist. Subsequently, she worked at Krasnodar television, was VGTRK's own correspondent in Rostov-on-Don, and worked as a special correspondent for the Vesti TV news program. She is a member of the board of directors of Channel One Russia and a member of the Academy of Russian Television. At the age of 25, she was appointed head of Russia Today, now known as RT.
In 2022 and 2023, Simonyan was sanctioned by the European Union as "a central figure of the Russian Government propaganda". She was sanctioned by the United Kingdom and Ukraine in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2024, she was sanctioned by the United States for alleged interference in the 2024 United States elections.[5]
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- ^ "Russian News, English Accent". www.cbsnews.com. 11 December 2005. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ Ioffe, Julia (September–October 2010). "What is Russia Today?". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ Margarita Simonyan biography Archived 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, NewsExchange.org, accessed 20 September 2012.
- ^ "RT editor Simonyan to head Kremlin-backed news agency". BBC News. 31 December 2013. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ^ Khinkulova, Kateryna (5 September 2024). "Who is Margarita Simonyan, Putin's propagandist-in-chief sanctioned by US?". BBC News.
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