OREANDA-NEWS. September 23, 2009. LUKOIL rates first among 75 major Russian companies in the business social responsibility rating released by the Trud newspaper, the Agency for Political and Economic Communications and the Russian Anti-Crisis Forum.

Social responsibility implies creation and preservation of jobs, tax compliance, fulfillment of obligations before employees, active support of regional social infrastructure.

The expert assessment list includes the companies which have been holding leading positions in sales volume in 2008.

The expert poll was conducted via close questioning. Twenty six experts, including representatives of trade unions, entrepreneur associations, economists, sociologists, political analysts, publicists participated in the polling in August 2009.

Among the participants were Sergey Katyrin, Vice-President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Tatyana Frolova, Deputy Chairwoman of the Russian Federation of Independent Trade Unions; Sergey Khramov, General Labor Inspector of the SOTSPROF trade union; Iosif Diskin, Co-Chairman of the National Strategy Council; Yakov Pappe, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Evgeny Gontmakher, Member of the Management Board of the Institute of Contemporary Development; Dmitry Badovsky, Member of the RF Public Chamber, Deputy Director of the Social Systems Research Institute; Mikhail Delyagin, Director of the Institute for Globalization Studies; Maxim Dianov, Director of the Institute for Regional Problems; Dmitry Orlov, General Director of the Agency for  Political and Economic Communications, President of the Russian Anti-Crisis Forum; Vladimir Borodin, Editor-in-Chief of the Trud newspaper.