OREANDA-NEWS. May 13, 2008. 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.