Margarita Simonyan named most quoted Russian media person of 2018
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency and the RT broadcaster, has topped the list of Russia's most quoted media personas of 2018, compiled by an independent monitoring firm, Sputnik reports.
Her most popular quotes included her announcement of the interview she had with the two Russians suspected by UK authorities of poisoning ex-spy Sergei Skripal and her referral to the arrest of the chief editor of the RIA Novosti Ukraine web portal, Kirill Vyshinsky, as an act of revenge for Russia building a bridge to Crimea.
The second spot in the rating by Medialogia, which monitors social and news media online, went to Alexei Venediktov, the editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio station, trailed by sports journalist and commentator Dmitry Guberniev.