Governors in the media

August 22 -- September 22, 2006

“Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

“Politicians through the Eyes of the Media” are published weekly on Mondays: over the course of a month, you can consistently familiarize yourself with the ratings of governors of the Russian Federation, deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, ministers of the Russian Federation and foreign politicians. The ratings are also published on the publication's website - www.vremya.ru.

The ratings reflect both the total number of publications per month and the level of information favored by the media in relation to each political figure. The Information Favorability Index (IFI) is calculated based on the nature of references to a person (positive, negative, neutral), the significance of the message and the influence of the media.

Ratings of "Medialogy" "Politics through the eyes of the media" are calculated by an automatic online system based on materials from 2,300 of the largest Russian media - including TV, radio, press, news agencies and online publications.

Mentions Change in ranking position Number of messages

1	0	LUZHKOV Yuri Mikhailovich	3375
2	+1	MATVIENKO Valentina Ivanovna	2117
3	-1	SHANTSEV Valery Pavlinovich	1129
4	+2	ABRAMOVICH Roman Arkadievich	922
5	+37	KATANANDOV Sergey Leonidovich	804
6	-2	KHLOPONIN Alexander Gennadievich	710
7	-2	ALKHANOV Alu Dadashevich	702
8	+20	BOOS Georgy Valentinovich	584
9	-1	SHAIMIEV Mintimer Sharipovich	464
10	+4	DARKIN Sergey Mikhailovich	457
11	-2	ROSSEL Eduard Ergartovich	455
12	-2	SUMIN Petr Ivanovich	453
13	+16	TISHANIN Alexander Georgievich	430
14	+1	MOROZOV Sergey Ivanovich	414
15	-8	GROMOV Boris Vsevolodovich	408
16	-8	YAKUSHEV Vladimir Vladimirovich	385
17	0	TKACHEV Alexander Nikolaevich	381
18	-7	SERDIUKOV Valery Pavlovich	377
19	-3	TULEEV Aman Gumirovich	361
20	+4	ZELENIN Dmitry Vadimovich	343

Information favored Change of position in the ranking Information favored index

1	0	LUZHKOV Yuri Mikhailovich	2921.40
2	+3	MATVIENKO Valentina Ivanovna	772.95
3	-1	ALKHANOV Alu Dadashevich	399.35
4	+7	ABRAMOVICH Roman Arkadievich	370.36
5	+12	BOOS Georgy Valentinovich	335.92
6	+44	KATANANDOV Sergey Leonidovich	328.23
7	-4	SHANTSEV Valery Pavlinovich	272.27
8	0	TKACHEV Alexander Nikolaevich	233.88
9	+37	ZELENIN Dmitry Vadimovich	210.88
10	-3	GROMOV Boris Vsevolodovich	198.88
11	-2	SHAIMIEV Mintimer Sharipovich	198.01
12	+56	GENIATULIN Ravil Faritovich	172.61
13	-3	TULEEV Aman Gumirovich	157.85
14	-8	KHLOPONIN Alexander Gennadievich	134.83
15	+18	ISHAEV Viktor Ivanovich	134.35
16	+11	SUMIN Petr Ivanovich	130.63
17	+21	MAMSUROV Taimuraz Dzambekovich	122.24
18	+5	ZYAZIKOV Murat Magometovich	111.65
19	+26	TISHANIN Alexander Georgievich	106.12
20	+4	YAKUSHEV Vladimir Vladimirovich	103.56

The 70th anniversary of Yuri Luzhkov became a good reason for the media to give a positive assessment of the results of the activities of the Moscow mayor. The general favorable attitude of commentators, coupled with such signs of recognition as the presentation of state awards and personal congratulations from the president, led to a record value of the information favored index and a four-fold lead over the second in this rating, Valentina Matvienko .

The third position of Chechen President Alu Alkhanov in the ranking according to the information favored index shows that media interest in events in this North Caucasus republic remains at a consistently high level. Over the past month, the focus has been on disagreements between President Alkhanov and the republic's Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. The subject of the dispute was the initiative of the President of Chechnya to possibly rename the Chechen Republic into the Nokhchiyn Republic. Another informational occasion in connection with which he appeared on the pages of the media were the events surrounding the Chechen community in the Karelian Kondopoga. The conflict in Kondopoga also predetermined the rise in ratings of the head of the Republic of Karelia, Sergei Katanandov , who immediately entered the top ten in both the rating of mentions and the rating of favored information. Despite the fact that the occasion itself - a pogrom in a provincial town - cannot be called a favorable background for appearing on the pages of the central media, the head of Karelia managed to avoid a massive wave of critical publications.

The most noticeable leap upward in the ranking according to the information favorability index was made by the governor of the Chita region, Ravil Geniatulin . However, the informational occasion that led to his appearance on the air of central television channels and on the feeds of news agencies cannot be classified as favorable - the accident at the Darasun mine claimed the lives of more than two dozen people.