Margarita Simonyan

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Margarita Simonyan
Маргарита Симоньян
Simonyan in 2017
Born	Margarita Simonovna Simonyan (1980-04-06) 6 April 1980 (age 44) Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Kuban State University
Occupation	Editor-in-chief
Years active	1999–present
Spouse	Tigran Keosayan ​ (m. 2022)​
Children	4
Margarita Simonyan's voice Recorded 18 November 2013

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]

She 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 [ru]. 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, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Armenia and other states for her central role in state propaganda before and during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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