RBC: Timakova will leave the post of spokesman Medvedev

Press Secretary of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev - deputy head of the government apparatus Natalya Timakov in late summer - early autumn will leave his post. This was reported by RBC with reference to a number of unnamed sources, including in the White House.

It is claimed that the upcoming resignation is explained solely by the desire of Timakova to change the sphere of activity.

Most likely, the publication says, the official will become the deputy chairman and member of the board of Vnesheconombank. In VEB, according to various sources, she can entrust the curator of projects in the field of culture and development of urban territories or issues of PR and GR (interaction with state structures).

Timakova herself, however, in the commentary, called the information about her resignation "rumors", assuring that "continues to work" in the government. In Web, they refused comments.

43-year-old Timakov along with former deputy prime minister Arkady Dvorkovich-faces from the nearest circle of Medvedev. In the 1990s, Timakova worked as a journalist. Since October 1999-press secretary of the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The co -author of the book "From the First Person. Talking with Vladimir Putin" (2000) released for the presidential election. After Putin’s victory in those elections, she held leading positions in his press service.

In 2008-2012, in Medvedev’s presidency, he was his spokesman. After Putin returned to the post of head of state, she transferred to the government with Medvedev.