Margarita Simonyan, head of the state-funded RT (Russian Today) satellite news network, is also the head of Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that includes Russia’s major state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Russia Today has reporters in 45 countries and provides news in 14 languages. Simonyan’s grandparents are Genocide survivors who fled to Armenia and then to Russia.
Margarita Simonyan, head of the state-funded RT (Russian Today) satellite news network, is also the head of Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that includes Russia’s major state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Russia Today has reporters in 45 countries and provides news in 14 languages. Simonyan’s grandparents are Genocide survivors who fled to Armenia and then to Russia.