OREANDA-NEWS. December 17, 2007. Agency of political and economic communications (APEC) has prepared a regular December Fuel & Energy Complex businessmen and top-managers authority rating, the press service of Transneft reports. As before the head of "Gazprom" Aleksey Miller is on the first place. "Rosneft" leader Sergey Bogdanchikov and "LUKOIL" head Vagit Alekperov go after. President of "Transneft" Nikolai Tokarev who, as noted by agency, "has fundamentally consolidated his authority and organized the management team" has entered the first ten of top-managers.

In order to determine the December Fuel & Energy Complex businessmen and top-managers authority rating, the expert questioning was held participated by 36 well-known experts in: economics, political sciences, investment and branch-wise analysts, economics journalists. The appraisal covered 70 candidates representing atomic energetic, gas, oil, coal-mining industries, oil and oil products transportation, power industry. The experts were demanded a following question: "What is your ten-point scale estimation of the political and lobbyist authority on Russian Federation Government, Administration of the Russian Federation President, Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and professional influence in the business community of the following businessmen and top-managers of the Russian Fuel & Energy Complex?"

"Oil of Russia" magazine stands for APEC's main information partner in publishing of all rating materials, "Oil and capital" internet site publishes the main results of the research, the brief information is distributed to 67 Russia's leading mass-medias.