Margarita Simonyan is 52nd on the Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women

The head of RT, the Kremlin’s international propaganda channel, has been named among the world’s most powerful women by the American business magazine Forbes.

At 52nd place, Margarita Simonyan, 37, is well above Hillary Clinton, the failed US presidential candidate, who has plunged from second place to 65th in one year.

Ms Simonyan is one of only two Russian woman to make the top 100, along with Elvira Nabiullina, head of Russia’s central bank, who is in 49th place.

Angela Merkel tops the list, followed by Theresa May.

Ms Simonyan’s position above Mrs Clinton seems to have prompted a little schadenfreude in Moscow.

RT noted that her inclusion “perhaps gives Hillary Clinton another bone to pick with RT”, adding: “It is Hillary Clinton and