Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of pro-Kremlin outlet Russia Today (RT) and the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya, confirmed on Monday, Sept. 22 that she has cancer. On Monday, Simonyan wrote that she is undergoing “cancer treatment” in a Telegram update, joking that she will be seen wearing a wig soon, presumably as a result of chemotherapy. Tigran [Keosayan] is still in a coma, and I’m undergoing cancer treatment. We’ll choose the best one together,” Simonyan wrote. AdvertisementIn January, Simonyan wrote that her husband, had “suffered clinical death and is in a coma,” adding that he has long had heart problems.