OREANDA-NEWS. On 18 June 2008 was announced, that the Agency for Political and Economic Communications (APEC) produced its scheduled influence-based ranking of entrepreneurs and top managers in Russia's fuel-and-power sector for June. The leaders of the monthly ranking, which covers 50 persons, are Alexei Miller (1), Vagit Alekperov (2), Sergei Bogdanchikov (3), Oleg Deripaska (4), Anatoly Chubais (5), Alisher Usmanov (6), Vladimir Bogdanov (7), Alexander Medvedev (8), Nikolai Tokarev (9), Gennady Timchenko (10).

In respect of Tansneft’s Head the Agency noted that the President of the company Nikolai Tokarev stadily maintains his position in ranking.

The ranking has been produced on the basis of the expert poll held by APEC in May 2008. 35 famous experts took part in it among them: economists, political, investment and industry analysts, and economics journalists. The ranking covered 74 nominees representing nuclear power, production of gas, oil and coal, transportation of crude oil and petroleum products, power generation.

APEC's main information partner for the publications of all ranking findings is the magazine Neft Rossii (Oil of Russia).