Margarita Simonyan is 5th on top-100 of RF powerful women’s list

The editor-in-chief of Russia Today, ethnic Armenian Margarita Simonyan, ranks the fifth on a recently unveiled list featuring Russia’s top-100 most powerful women.

The ranking, prepared by the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow ) radio, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies and the Ogonyok (Little Flame) magazine, is topped by Svetlana Mironyuk, the RIA Novosti editor-in-chief. An anchor for the REN TV channel, Marianna Maksimovskaya, is the second on the list. Journalist and TV presenter Kseniya Sobchak and CEO of the TV channel Dozhd (Rain) Natalya Sindeeva come next.

The Russian pop singer, Alla Pugacheva, and President Dmitry Medvedev’s wife, Svetlana Medvedeva, are also on the top 10 list.