Dmitry Medvedev announced the new appointees to the Presidential Administration The President appointed Natalia Timakova as his press-secretary. Marina Entaltseva will serve as head of the Presidential Protocol. The head of state also appointed six presidential aides: Aleksandr Abramov, Sergei Prikhodko, Dzhakhan Pollyevu, Larisa Brycheva, Arkadii Dvorkovich and Konstantin Chuichenko. In addition there will be five advisors in the President’s office: Mikhail Trinoga, Mikhail Zurabov, Yuri Laptev, Benyamin Yakovlev and Leonid Reiman. Yesterday Dmitry Medvedev chose Sergei Naryshkin to head the Presidential Administration, along with three assistants: Vladislav Surkov, Aleksei Gromov and Aleksandr Beglov. |