When warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin’s fighters were marching on Moscow, Margarita Simonyan, an arch-propagandist who is editor of the state news network RT, was curiously silent.
Simonyan — once one of Prigozhin’s biggest cheerleaders in the Russian elite — later explained she had been on a cruise down the Volga river filming a culture documentary about centuries-old Orthodox churches, blissfully unaware the state was on the verge of collapse.
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