In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Simonovna and the family name is Simonyan.
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Margarita Simonyan
Маргарита Симоньян
Simonyan in 2017
Born
Margarita Simonovna Simonyan
(1980-04-06) 6 April 1980 (age 43)
Krasnodar, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship
Russian
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 (Russian: Маргарита Симоновна Симоньян; 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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^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.
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