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{{Infobox person
| name = Natalya Timakova
| image =Natalya Timakova.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1975|4|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Almaty]], [[Soviet Union]]
|known_for = [[Press Attaché]] to the [[Russian President]]
|alma_mater = [[Moscow State University]]
|employer = [[Presidential Press and Information Office]]
|nationality = [[Russians|Russian]]
| occupation = [[Journalist]]/[[Press Attaché]]
|spouse = Alexander Budberg<ref name="salary" /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc-y.aspx?DocsID=1180327|script-title=ru:К "Черешневому лесу" привили стройотряд|last=Kuzina|first=Mila|date=1 June 2009|publisher=[[Kommersant]]|accessdate=2009-08-12|language=ru}}</ref>
|residence = [[Moscow]]
|salary = 3,203,900 [[Russian ruble]]s (2008)<ref name="salary">{{cite web|url=http://archive.kremlin.ru/images/svedenij.doc|script-title=ru:Уточнённые сведения об имущественном положении и доходах руководящего состава Администрации Президента Российской Федерации и членов их семей за период с 1 января 2008 года по 31 декабря 2008 года |publisher=[[Presidential Press and Information Office]]|accessdate=2011-05-07|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5yUuB9QvL|archivedate=7 May 2011|language=ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://kp.ru/go//daily/24275/471332/print/|script-title=ru:Кремлевские чиновники раскрыли свои доходы|date=10 April 2009|publisher=[[Komsomolskaya Pravda]]|accessdate=2009-08-12|language=ru}}</ref>
}}

'''Natalya Aleksandrovna Timakova''' ({{lang-ru|Наталья Александровна Тимакова}}) (born 12 April 1975<ref name="komm151102">{{cite news|url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=351147|last=Bulavinov|first=Ilya|script-title=ru:Наш человек в Кремле пошел в гору|date=15 November 2002|publisher=[[Kommersant]]|accessdate=2009-06-08|language=ru}}</ref>) is a Russian [[journalist]]. As of 2012 she is [[press attaché]] to the [[Prime Minister of Russia|Russian Prime Minister]] [[Dmitry Medvedev]].

== Personal life and education ==

Born at [[Alma Ata]] in the [[Kazakh SSR]], Timakova graduated from the [[Faculty of Arts|Faculty of Philosophy]] at [[Moscow State University]] in 1998.<ref name="lentapedia">{{cite web|url=http://lenta.ru/lib/14160247/|script-title=ru:Тимакова, Наталья|publisher=[[Lenta.ru|Lentapedia]]|language=Russian|accessdate=7 May 2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5yVBO6ilb|archivedate=7 May 2011}}</ref>

== Journalistic career ==

Timakova began working as a journalist in 1995 whilst studying at Moscow State, where she was a [[political journalism|political journalist]] for ''[[Moskovsky Komsomolets]]''. In 1996 Timakova was part of the Presidential [[Press pool|pool of journalists]] and she covered the [[election campaign]] of [[List of Russian Presidents|first Russian President]] [[Boris Yeltsin]] for the [[Russian presidential election, 1996|1996 presidential election]]. In 1997 Timakova was a reporter and then senior political correspondent at ''[[Kommersant]]'', and worked for the [[publishing house]] until 1999.<ref name="lentapedia" /> In 1999, Timakova was the political correspondent for [[Interfax]].<ref name="lentapedia" />

== 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 Attache for the President and Head of the [[Kremlin Press Secretary|Presidential Press and Information Office]].<ref>{{Cite Russian law
|ru_entity=Президент Российской Федерации
|ru_type=Указ
|ru_number=1290
|ru_date=04.11.2002
|ru_title=О первом заместителе пресс — секретаря президента российской федерации — начальнике управления пресс — службы президента российской федерации
|ru_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=014651
|en_entity=[[President of Russia]]
|en_type=[[Ukaz]]
|en_number=1290
|en_date=4 November 2002
|en_title=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
|en_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=014651
}}</ref>

On 13 May 2008, Timakova was appointed by new President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] to the post of [[Press Attaché]] to the Russian President.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080513/107278320.html|title=Russian president appoints 5 advisors, 6 aides, protocol chief|date=13 May 2008|publisher=[[RIA Novosti]]|location=[[Moscow]]|accessdate=2009-08-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Russian law
|ru_entity=Президент Российской Федерации
|ru_type=Указ
|ru_number=770
|ru_date=13.05.2008
|ru_title=О пресс-секретаре Президента Российской Федерации
|ru_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=045878
|en_entity=[[President of Russia]]
|en_type=[[Ukaz]]
|en_number=770
|en_date=13 May 2008
|en_title=On the Press Attaché to the President of the Russian Federation
|en_url=http://document.kremlin.ru/doc.asp?ID=045878
}}</ref> Timakova was a core member of Medvedev's presidential administration,<ref>{{cite book|last=Sakwa|first=Richard|authorlink=Richard Sakwa|title=The Crisis of Russian Democracy: The Dual State, Factionalism and the Medvedev Succession|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHn6GavS9c0C|accessdate=8 May 2011|year=2011|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=0-521-14522-8|page=316|chapter=Medvedev's challenge}}</ref> 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 [[politics of Russia|Russian politics]], after [[Tatyana Golikova]] and [[Elvira Nabiullina]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ng.ru/ideas/2012-01-16/9_top100_2011.html|title=100 ведущих политиков России в 2011 году Подробнее|last=Orlov|first=Dmitry Ivanovich|date=16 January 2012|publisher=[[Nezavisimaya Gazeta]]|accessdate=4 February 2012|language=ru}}</ref>

In May 2012 she was appointed as the Spokesman of the Prime Minister.{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}

== 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 [[2008 South Ossetia war|events around South Ossetia in 2008]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://presidentrso.ru/edicts/detail.php?ID=2238|title=Указ О награждении Орденом Дружбы Тимаковой Н.А.|date=29 January 2009|publisher=[[President of South Ossetia]]|accessdate=7 May 2011|location=[[Tskhinval]]|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5yV9mge59|archivedate=7 May 2011}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
In 2000, Timakova co-wrote ''First Person: Conversations With Vladimir Putin'' with [[Andrey Kolesnikov (journalist born 1966)|Andrey Kolesnikov]] and [[Nataliya Gevorkyan]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/print/2000/sep/24/books/bk-25823|title=Homo Sovieticus|last=Khrushcheva|first=Nina|authorlink=Nina L. Khrushcheva|date=24 September 2000|publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]]|accessdate=4 February 2012}}</ref>

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{commons category|Natalya Timakova}}
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUhUnau5ClM Timakova interview] with [[Russia Today|RT]] discussing her position as Presidential Press Attaché

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[[Category:1975 births]]
[[Category:Russian journalists]]
[[Category:Moscow State University alumni]]
[[Category:People from Almaty]]
[[Category:Writers from Moscow]]
[[Category:Medvedev Administration personnel]]
[[Category:Spokespersons]]
[[Category:Russian newspaper people]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship (South Ossetia)]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Russian women writers]]
[[Category:Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation]]
[[Category:20th-century women writers]]

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