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Margarita Simonyan

1980 - Today

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Margarita Simonovna Simonyan (born 6 April 1980) is a Russian media executive. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Margarita Simonyan is the 123rd most popular journalist (down from 112th in 2024), the 2,409th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,318th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Margarita Simonyan ranks 123 out of 196. Before her are Bianca Maria Piccinino, Kenji Nagai, Carol Thatcher, Peter Jennings, Catherine Leroy, and Sara Carbonero. After her are Bogna Koreng, Peter Travers, Sydney Schanberg, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, Dorothy Thompson, and Louis Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Margarita Simonyan ranks 220. Before her are Mozhan Marnò, Yuichi Nakamura, Zachary Levi, Katrine Lunde, Diego Pérez, and Francisco Pavón. After her are Inio Asano, Yekaterina Gamova, Sebastian Deisler, Sachio Yoshida, Stuart Taylor, and Samaire Armstrong.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Margarita Simonyan ranks 2,409 out of 3,761. Before her are Pavel Pinigin (1953), Alexander Zhukov (1956), Alexey Okladnikov (1908), Igor Presnyakov (1960), Aleksandr Kerzhakov (1982), and Vladimir Rushailo (1953). After her are Nikolai Puchkov (1930), Yelena Baturina (1963), Vitaly Mutko (1958), Zinetula Bilyaletdinov (1955), Alexey Ulyukaev (1956), and Oxana Fedorova (1977).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Russia

Among journalists born in Russia, Margarita Simonyan ranks 6. Before her are Yuri Bezmenov (1939), Vladislav Listyev (1956), Vladimir Solovyov (1963), Dmitry Kiselyov (1954), and Alexei Venediktov (1955). After her are Ekaterina Andreeva (1965), Darya Dugina (1992), Olga Skabeyeva (1984), Zhanna Nemtsova (1984), Irina Slavina (1973), and Ilya Varlamov (1984).

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