OREANDA-NEWS. On 16 January 2009 was announced, that according to the results of influence ranking among representatives of the Russian ICT industry in the year 2008, prepared by the Agency of political and economical communications (APEC), Sergey Pridantsev, president of the Group of companies COMSTAR-United TeleSystems, is among TOP-20 of the most influential representatives in the sphere of the national informational technologies and communications.

Leaders of the ranking, comprising 50 persons, are Leonid Reinman, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Evtushenkov, Chairman of AFK Sistema Board of Directors and Igor Shchegolev, the RF Minister of Communications. Sergey Pridantsev, president of COMSTAR-UTS, entered the category "Strong influence" and took the 18th position in the ranking. This position is one of the highest among the top-managers of holding companies in the sphere of Russian infocommunications.

Final influence ranking among representatives of ICT industry is based on the results of experts’ surveys, carried out by APEC from January till December 2008. Investment, bank and market analysts took part in the survey. Ranking of political and lobbying influence in the RF Government, in the Presidential Executive Office, in the Federal Assembly of the RF, and professional influence in the business community was carried out on the monthly base among 70 nominees – executives of regulatory agencies, shareholders, owners, top managers of the holdings and the major companies of the industry, and industrial groups. The Final ranking is the consolidated evaluation of influence of 50 representatives of ICT industry in the year 2008.

For more information on the ranking results, please visit the internet portal of Telecom-expert: http://www.telecom-expert.ru/page.php?r=6.