Margarita Simonovna Simonyan is a Russian media executive and propagandist. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian broadcaster RT, as well as the media group Rossiya Segodnya.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits RT offices with Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan in April 2010
Simonyan with Russian President Vladimir Putin and television presenter Dmitry Kiselyov in June 2016
Simonyan on Showtime during a talk with journalists Mark McKinnon, John Heilemann and Alex Wagner in April 2018
Simonyan in 2017![Streets of Kyiv following Russian missile strikes on 10 October 2022. Simonyan called for retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian cities.[51]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28073%29.webp/1280px-Kyiv_after_Russian_shelling%2C_2022-10-10_%28073%29.webp.png)
Streets of Kyiv following Russian missile strikes on 10 October 2022. Simonyan called for retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian cities.[51]
Vladimir Putin awards Simonyan with an Order of Alexander Nevsky in May 2019In their own words 10
We got through it. And we’ll get through this now too. I have no doubts whatsoever.
"Simonyan urges Russians not to worry about the fuel shortage: 'No petrol? I remember when food was rationed.'" Censor.net (July 8, 2026)
It is the most difficult and the toughest because it is the first war in our history in which we have no allies at all.
"Russia Has No Allies in Ukraine War, State TV Boss Admits", Newsweek (5 September 2023)
If Lindsey Graham really said that the money for the killing of Russians is the best money the US ever spent . . .
Comments on Russian television cited in "RT chief wants US senator Lindsey Graham killed over remarks in Kyiv" The Times (30 May 2023)
On YouTube
YouTubeAwards 11
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Connected to Margarita 5
Katerina ShpitsaAlso in Crimean Bridge. Made With Love! (2018)
David KeosayanAlso in Crimean Bridge. Made With Love! (2018)
Sergey ParkhomenkoAlso won Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of mass media
Natalya NarochnitskayaAlso won Order of the Holy Princess Olga
Loris TjeknavorianAlso won Khorenatsi medalJournalists born in the 1980s 1
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