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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Zakharova.
Maria Zakharova
Мария Захарова
Zakharova in 2016
Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Incumbent
Assumed office 10 August 2015
President
Vladimir Putin
Preceded by
Alexander Lukashevich
Personal details
Born
Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova
(1975-12-24) 24 December 1975 (age 48) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Spouse
Andrei Makarov
(m. 2005)
Children
1
Alma mater
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University)
Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova (Russian: Мария Владимировна Захарова; born 24 December 1975) is a Russian politician who serves as the director of the information and press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation[1] She has been the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation since 2015.
She has a degree of Candidate in Historical Sciences, the Russian equivalent of a PhD.[2]
^Директор ДИП МИД Роcсии [Director of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs] (in Russian). Retrieved 5 June 2016.
^Говорит Москва [Says Moscow] (in Russian). Retrieved 5 June 2016.
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