OREANDA-NEWS. May 22, 2012. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed executive orders relieving several senior officials at the Government Executive Office from their duties due to new appointments:

Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary for the Prime Minister and Deputy Chief of the Government Staff;

Yury Ushakov, Deputy Chief of the Government Staff; and

Dmitry Kalimulin, Director of the Prime Minister's Speech Writing Department.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed executive orders appointing the following senior officials to the Government Executive Office:

Alexandra Levitskaya as First Deputy Chief of the Government Staff;

Sergei Prikhodko as First Deputy Chief of the Government Staff;

Natalia Timakova as Press Secretary for the Prime Minister and Deputy Chief of the Government Staff;

Marina Yentaltseva as Director of the Protocol Department and Deputy Chief of the Government Staff;

Mikhail Trinoga as Deputy Chief of the Government Staff;

Maxim Akimov as Deputy Chief of the Government Staff; and

Yeva Vasilevskaya as Director of the Prime Minister's Speech Writing Department.