Deputies in the media

November 22 -- December 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 2,700 of the largest Russian media - including TV, radio, press, news agencies and online publications.

MentionsChange in ranking positionNumber of messages

1	0	GRYZLOV Boris Vyacheslavovich	2854
2	0	ZHIRINOVSKY Vladimir Volfovich	1074
3	+55	KERIMOV Suleiman Abusaidovich	784
4	-1	ZYUGANOV Gennady Andreevich	690
5	+18	KOBZON Joseph Davydovich	462
6	+15	KHINSTEIN Alexander Evseevich	446
7	+15	RYZHKOV Vladimir Alexandrovich	445
8	+8	AKSAKOV Anatoly Gennadievich	422
9	-2	VOLODIN Vyacheslav Viktorovich	417
10	+3	MOROZOV Oleg Viktorovich	400
11	+31	TRETYAK Vladislav Alexandrovich	367
12	-7	SLISKA Lyubov Konstantinovna	365
13	-4	ISAEV Andrey Konstantinovich	298
14	+23	LEBEDEV Alexander Evgenievich	284
14	0	GUDKOV Gennady Vladimirovich	284
14	-3	PLIGIN Vladimir Nikolaevich	284
15	-5	BABURIN Sergey Nikolaevich	283
16	+10	FEDOROV Evgeniy Alekseevich	280
16	-12	ROGOZIN Dmitry Olegovich	280
17	+17	ZATULIN Konstantin Fedorovich	254

Information favored Change of position in the ranking Information favored index

1	0	GRYZLOV Boris Vyacheslavovich	2,099.62
2	0	ZHIRINOVSKY Vladimir Volfovich	677.17
3	+2	ZYUGANOV Gennady Andreevich	602.89
4	+97	KERIMOV Suleiman Abusaidovich	466.17
5	+7	AKSAKOV Anatoly Gennadievich	288.04
6	+18	KHINSTEIN Alexander Evseevich	275.02
7	+35	TRETYAK Vladislav Alexandrovich	274.99
8	+14	RYZHKOV Vladimir Alexandrovich	274.80
9	+20	KOBZON Joseph Davydovich	268.51
10	-1	ISAEV Andrey Konstantinovich	253.59
11	+30	SEMIGIN Gennady Yurievich	249.97
12	-4	MOROZOV Oleg Viktorovich	244.59
13	-10	KOSACHEV Konstantin Iosifovich	232.66
14	+7	SLISKA Lyubov Konstantinovna	225.94
15	+3	FEDOROV Evgeniy Alekseevich	220.38
16	-6	MITROFANOV Alexey Valentinovich	216.83
17	-10	GUDKOV Gennady Vladimirovich	211.27
18	+2	LEBEDEV Alexander Evgenievich	211.10
19	+26	ZATULIN Konstantin Fedorovich	204.63
20	-14	VOLODIN Vyacheslav Viktorovich	184.75

Chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov continues to lead in both ratings, maintaining a stable lead from second place. Of course, the central event of the month for him was the congress of the United Russia party in Yekaterinburg, where the main directions of activity of the largest parliamentary party for the next ten years were worked out. Among other events, it is worth highlighting the meeting of party leaders with the president initiated by Gryzlov, at which the problems of combating extremism were discussed.

Traditionally, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky enjoyed increased interest among the media, who readily commented on the results of the meeting with Vladimir Putin, the death of Litvinenko and the poisoning of Gaidar, and also publicly accused the Union of Right Forces of bribing voters in the elections to the Perm parliament. From an information point of view, the past month has also been successful for Gennady Zyuganov . The mysterious story of the return of the French painter Jerome's painting "Pool in a Harem" stolen from the Hermitage five years ago was discussed for several days on the pages of leading Russian media. And the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who took part in the return of the film to the state, was included in the top three in terms of information favoredness.

For the first time, Suleiman Kerimov became a figure in both ratings, but this is primarily due to the tragic events in the life of the famous Russian billionaire - at the end of November he had a serious accident in his car in Nice. Vladislav Tretyak has significantly improved his position in the information space. He was helped to become one of the twenty most successfully represented deputies in the media by the press attention to the hockey tournament for the Channel One Cup and the unprecedented match of stars of the USSR and the world on Red Square. Significant progress in both rankings was made by Konstantin Zatulin , who, as director of the Institute of CIS Countries, gave out many interviews during the 15th anniversary CIS summit in Minsk.