OREANDA-NEWS. January 10, 2012. Concern Galnaftogaz CEO Vitaliy Antonov entered the ranking of businessmen most often mentioned by Ukrainian media. The ranking was drawn up by Kommentarii (Comments) weekly. Ukraine was used as a basis for comparison; the mention index, which is equal to 100, was assigned to it. Thus, mention index 1 means that for every 100 messages in the media mentioning Ukraine there was one message mentioning certain businessman.

Ranking compilers stress that entering politics ensures for businessmen the increase of their citation or mention index in the media. On the other hand, the number of mentions of businessmen in government is not correlated with the total worth of their assets.

The top three mentioned businessmen are as follows:

Serhiy Tihipko 2.389

Borys Kolesnikov 1.566

Andriy and Serhiy Klyuyev 1.492

Vitaliy Antonov took the 29th place in the list of most mentioned businessmen.