Natalya Timakova

Natalya Aleksandrovna Timakova (Russian: Наталья Александровна Тимакова; born 12 April 1975[1]) is a Russian journalist. From 2008 to 2018, she was the press secretary of Russian politician Dmitry Medvedev.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Aleksandrovna and the family name is Timakova.
Natalya Timakova
Наталья Тимакова
Kremlin Press Secretary
In office
13 May 2008 – 21 May 2012
PresidentDmitry Medvedev
Preceded byAlexey Gromov
Succeeded byDmitry Peskov
Press Secretary of the Prime Minister of Russia
In office
22 May 2012 – 17 September 2018
Prime MinisterDmitry Medvedev
Preceded byDmitry Peskov
Succeeded byOleg Osipov
Personal details
Born
Natalya Aleksandrovna Timakova

(1975-04-12) 12 April 1975
Alma Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union (now Almaty, Kazakhstan)
NationalityRussian
SpouseAlexander Budberg

She has the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.[2]

Early life and education

Timakova was Born at Alma Ata in the Kazakh SSR (now Almaty, Kazakhstan) on 12 April 1975. Timakova graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University in 1998.[3]

Journalistic career

Timakova began working as a journalist in 1995 whilst studying at Moscow State, where she was a political journalist for Moskovsky Komsomolets. In 1996, Timakova was part of the Presidential pool of journalists and she covered the election campaign of first Russian President Boris Yeltsin for the 1996 presidential election. In 1997, Timakova was a reporter and then senior political correspondent at Kommersant, and worked for the publishing house until 1999.[3] In 1999, Timakova was the political correspondent for Interfax.[3]

Government service

In 1999, Timakova was appointed as Deputy Head of the Government Information Department of the Russian government, until she was appointed in 2000 as the Deputy Head of the Presidential Press and Information Office, and from 2001 as First Deputy Head of the same office. On 4 November 2002, she was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin as First Deputy Press secretary for the President and Head of the Presidential Press and Information Office.[4]

On 13 May 2008, Timakova was appointed by new President Dmitry Medvedev to the post of Press Secretary to the Russian President.[5] Timakova was a core member of Medvedev's presidential administration,[6] and she was deemed by the Agency for Political and Economic Communications in 2011 to be the 44th most powerful figure, and to be the third most powerful female, in Russian politics, after Tatyana Golikova and Elvira Nabiullina.[7]

On 22 May 2012, she was appointed as the Spokesman of the Prime Minister.[8]

After leaving government service, she was appointed as Deputy Chairman of the VEB.RF state development corporation.[9] In November 2021, Timakova was on the Expert Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.[10]

Personal life

She is married to businessman Alexander Budberg, who is the chairman of the executive committee of the Bolshoi Ballet's board of trustees.[11]

Awards

On 29 January 2009, South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity signed an ukaz conferring on Timakova the Order of Friendship for "assistance in objective reporting of the events around South Ossetia in 2008".[12]

Bibliography

In 2000, Timakova co-wrote First Person: Conversations With Vladimir Putin with Andrey Kolesnikov and Nataliya Gevorkyan.[13]

References
  1. Bulavinov, Ilya (15 November 2002). Наш человек в Кремле пошел в гору (in Russian). Kommersant. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
  2. "О присвоении квалификационного разряда Тимаковой Н.А.". Decree No. 655 of 10 June 2003 (in Russian). President of Russia.
  3. Тимакова, Наталья (in Russian). Lentapedia. Archived from the original on 27 April 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  4. Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №1290 от 04.11.2002 «О первом заместителе пресс — секретаря президента российской федерации — начальнике управления пресс — службы президента российской федерации». (President of Russia. Ukaz #1290 of 4 November 2002 On the First Deputy Press Attaché for the President of the Russian Federation and Head of the Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation. ).
  5. Президент Российской Федерации. Указ №770 от 13.05.2008 «О пресс-секретаре Президента Российской Федерации». (President of Russia. Ukaz #770 of 13 May 2008 On the Press Attaché to the President of the Russian Federation. ).
  6. Sakwa, Richard (2011). "Medvedev's challenge". The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession. Cambridge University Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-521-14522-0. Retrieved 8 May 2011.
  7. Orlov, Dmitry Ivanovich (16 January 2012). "100 ведущих политиков России в 2011 году Подробнее" (in Russian). Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
  8. Путин произвел кадровые назначения: экс-министры получили должности в администрации. Vesti.ru. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
  9. "Наталью Тимакову назначили заместителем председателя ВЭБ" (in Russian). РИА Новости. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  10. "Наблюдательный и экспертный совет Агентства стратегических инициатив".
  11. Remnick, David (11 March 2013). "Danse Macabre | A scandal at the Bolshoi Ballet". The New Yorker. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  12. "Указ О награждении Орденом Дружбы Тимаковой Н.А." Tskhinval: President of South Ossetia. 29 January 2009. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
  13. Khrushcheva, Nina (24 September 2000). "Homo Sovieticus". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
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