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Margarita Simonyan

1980 - Today

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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, as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margarita Simonyan has received more than 724,929 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Margarita Simonyan is the 110th most popular journalist (down from 105th in 2019), the 2,278th most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,050th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Journalist.

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  • 720k

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  • 38.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.00

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Margarita Simonyan ranks 110 out of 127Before her are Anja Niedringhaus, Amy Goodman, Peter Jennings, Tucker Carlson, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, and Kenji Nagai. After her are Yvonne Ridley, Pavel Sheremet, Khadija Ismayilova, Samantha Power, Rosanna Marani, and Adrian Lamo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Margarita Simonyan ranks 253Before her are David Haye, Satoshi Ohno, Patrick Friesacher, Mark Bresciano, Vibeke Skofterud, and Shaun Evans. After her are Javier Chevantón, Lee Jung-hyun, Han Chae-young, Monique Coleman, Kengo Nakamura, and Igor Vori.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Margarita Simonyan ranks 2,278 out of 3,262Before her are Timati (1983), Aleksei Miranchuk (1995), Sergei Treshchov (1958), Mikhail Porechenkov (1969), Vadim Repin (1971), and Eduard Ivanov (1938). After her are Maria Kirilenko (1987), Arkady Babchenko (1977), Artur Beterbiev (1985), Aleksandr Uvarov (1960), Oksana Akinshina (1987), and Pavel Pogrebnyak (1983).

Among JOURNALISTS In Russia

Among journalists born in Russia, Margarita Simonyan ranks 5Before her are Yuri Bezmenov (1939), Vladislav Listyev (1956), Dmitry Kiselyov (1954), and Vladimir Solovyov (1963). After her are Zhanna Nemtsova (1984).

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