Simonyan Margarita

Simonyan Margarita Date of Birth

6 April 1980

Simonyan Margarita Citizenship

Russia

Simonyan Margarita Professional field/official position

Editor-in-Chief of the Russia Today (RT) TV Channel, state-owned Rossiya Segodnya Agency and Sputnik Information Agency

Simonyan Margarita biography

SIMONYAN Margarita Simonovna (b.1980) is a high-rank Russian propagandist and media manager, Editor-in-Chief of the Russian international broadcaster. Born in Krasnodar, she graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of the Kuban State University and Vladimir Pozner School of Television Mastery. Soon after she started her career in Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don, she moved to Moscow and in 2002 became a special correspondent on a federal TV channel.

In 2005, she became the Editor-in-Chief of the Russia Today TV Channel (RT), a newly created international broadcaster. Since December 31, 2013, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of Rossiya Segodnya state media holding, and since November 10, 2014, the Sputnik news agency, which is an international part of the holding.

Simonyan Margarita crimes

Margarita Simonyan’s exclusive interview with the Skripal “suspects” Petrov and Boshirov

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RT and Rossiya Segodnya, led by Simonyan, made a significant contribution to the advocacy of acts of international aggression by the Russian regime and crimes against humanity. These include the war with Georgia, the annexation of Crimea and Russian military operations in southeastern Ukraine, the downing of MH-17, the poisoning of Litvinenko, the attempt to poison the Skripals, and so on.