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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margarita Simonyan has received more than 824,363 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Margarita Simonyan is the 112th most popular journalist (down from 109th in 2019), the 2,318th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,274th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Margarita Simonyan ranks 112 out of 196. Before her are Fabrizio Romano, Anna Whitlock, George Rodger, Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek, Sofía Ímber, and Sara Carbonero. After her are Jill Dando, Catherine Leroy, Dorothy Thompson, Daniel Schneidermann, Chingiz Mustafayev, and Peter Jennings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Margarita Simonyan ranks 161. Before her are Nana Mizuki, Rodrigo Tabata, Virgil Abloh, Murat Boz, Yekaterina Gamova, and Wilmer Valderrama. After her are Inma Cuesta, Lee Yo-won, Agnes Obel, Enzo Maresca, Ruja Ignatova, and Kiril Petkov.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Margarita Simonyan ranks 2,318 out of 3,761. Before her are Alexander Afinogenov (1904), Vladimir Nevzorov (1952), Viktor Krovopuskov (1948), Kseniya Rappoport (1974), Viktor Zubkov (1937), and Dmitri Alenichev (1972). After her are Artem Dzyuba (1988), Leonid Slutsky (1971), Tatyana Averina (1950), Andrei Chesnokov (1966), Oscar Grégoire (1877), and Ivan Lepyokhin (1740).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Russia

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

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