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    RT Head Simonyan Appointed Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief

    Margarita Simonyan

    © RIA Novosti. Sergey Piatakov
    14:11 31/12/2013
    Tags: Margarita Simonyan, Russia


    MOSCOW, December 31 (RIA Novosti) - Margarita Simonyan, the head of
    the state-funded RT satellite news network, was appointed Wednesday to
    head the Rossiya Segodnya media conglomerate that will include
    Russia's major state-run news agency RIA Novosti.

    "This key position could only be held by a person with a brilliant
    journalistic reputation and contemporary managerial skills," Rossiya
    Segodnya's director Dmitry Kiselyov said.

    Simonyan will also retain her post as the head of RT, which formerly
    broadcast under the name Russia Today.

    Earlier in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree
    to scrap RIA Novosti and the state-owned Voice of Russia radio and
    absorb them into the new Rossiya Segodnya.

    In a separate decree, the Kremlin appointed Kiselyov, a prominent
    Russian television presenter and media manager, to head Rossiya
    Segodnya.

    RIA Novosti was set up in 1941, two days after Nazi Germany invaded
    the Soviet Union, as the Soviet Information Bureau, and now has
    reporters in over 45 countries providing news in 14 languages.

    http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131231/186117507/RT-Head-Simonyan-Appointed-Rossiya-Segodnya-Editor-in-Chief.html

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