Margarita Simonyan, head of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group, revealed on Solovyov’s TV show that doctors diagnosed her with a “serious illness” and that she faces surgery, hinting at a mastectomy. Sources told The Moscow Times she has cancer, and her future role at RT is now in question.

Simonyan, 45, runs one of the Kremlin’s main propaganda outlets, fully state-funded with a 2025 budget of 31.1 billion rubles. Both she and RT are under US and EU sanctions.

Her husband, filmmaker and propagandist TV host Tigran Keosayan, has been in a coma for nine months after clinical death in January 2025.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1965055353147498771

Margarita Simonyan, head of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group, revealed on Solovyov’s TV show that doctors diagnosed her with a “serious illness” and that she faces surgery, hinting at a mastectomy. Sources told The Moscow Times she has cancer, and her future role at RT is now in question.

Simonyan, 45, runs one of the Kremlin’s main propaganda outlets, fully state-funded with a 2025 budget of 31.1 billion rubles. Both she and RT are under US and EU sanctions.

Her husband, filmmaker and propagandist TV host Tigran Keosayan, has been in a coma for nine months after clinical death in January 2025.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1965055353147498771

>hopes the cancer gets better and more painful