Rosatom employee will become deputy head of the Kremlin internal policy department

Sergey Novikov, Director of the Communications Department of Rosatom Corporation, will become Deputy Head of the Internal Policy Department in the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. This was reported by Interfax, citing a source in the Kremlin.

Novikov has for many years been part of the team of Sergei Kiriyenko, who was recently appointed first deputy head of the presidential administration. Until now, Novikov served as director of the communications department of Rosatom.

Interfax

• On October 5, the head of Rosatom and former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Kiriyenko became the first deputy head of the Russian presidential administration. In this position, he replaced Vyacheslav Volodin, who became the speaker of the State Duma.
• Until recently, the post of deputy head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration was occupied by Olga Sitnikova. As RBC wrote , in the department she oversaw information policy and the Internet. After Volodin moved to parliament, she became deputy head of the apparatus of the lower house of parliament.
• Director of the Communications Department of Rosatom Sergey Novikov has been regularly participating in the filming of the What? Where? When?" on Channel One, acting in it as a "defender of the interests of connoisseurs." Rosatom is one of the sponsors of the program.