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'''Margarita Simonovna Simonyan''' ({{lang-ru|Маргарита Симоновна Симоньян}}; born 6 April 1980) is a Russian media executive. She is the editor-in-chief of the Russian [[State media|state-controlled]] broadcaster [[RT (TV network)|RT]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian News, English Accent |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-news-english-accent-11-12-2005/ |access-date=18 March 2022 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=11 December 2005 |language=en-US |archive-date=30 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530041616/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-news-english-accent-11-12-2005/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ioffe">{{cite news|last=Ioffe|first=Julia|title=What is Russia Today?|url=https://www.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php?page=all&print=true|newspaper=[[Columbia Journalism Review]]|date=September–October 2010|access-date=27 September 2020|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306142718/http://www.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php?page=all&print=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=bio>[http://www.newsxchange.org/about-nx12/executive-team/margarita-simonyan.html Margarita Simonyan biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621180236/http://www.newsxchange.org/about-nx12/executive-team/margarita-simonyan.html |date=21 June 2012 }}, NewsExchange.org, accessed 20 September 2012.</ref> as well as the state-owned media group [[Rossiya Segodnya]].<ref name=new>{{cite news|title=RT editor Simonyan to head Kremlin-backed news agency|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25560434|access-date=31 December 2013|work=BBC News|date=31 December 2013|archive-date=20 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320130823/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25560434|url-status=live}}</ref>
Covering [[Second Chechen War]] in the 2000s while working as a journalist, Margarita Simonyan promoted a pro-government position. Subsequently, she worked at [[Krasnodar]] television, was [[All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company|VGTRK]]'s own correspondent in [[Rostov-on-Don]], and worked as a special correspondent for the [[Vesti (VGTRK)|Vesti]] TV news program. She is a member of the board of directors of [[Channel One Russia]] and a member of the {{Ill|Academy of Russian Television|ru|Академия российского телевидения}}. At the age of 25, she was appointed head of Russia Today (RT).
In 2022 and 2023, Simonyan was sanctioned by the [[European Union]], [[United Kingdom]], and other states for her central role in state propaganda before and during the [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]].
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