Medvedev beats Putin in the press
President Dmitry Medvedev has topped a list of the most-mentioned personalities in the Russian media in 2009 with 122,871 references.
This result was up from last year’s figure of 100,264, according to a news analysis system created by Interfax, Moscow Times reports. Medvedev outranked Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who was mentioned in Moscow and regional media a total of 93,182 times, compared with 94,906 in 2008. Both politicians also topped the list of most-mentioned personalities for the week ending Dec. 27, with 3,752 references to Medvedev and 2,324 to Putin. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was the most-mentioned foreign politician with 47,217 references, far ahead of No. 2 U.S. President Barack Obama with 39,628. Interfax scanned about 1,600 media outlets in Moscow and other regions, including newswires, television, radio, newspapers and Internet resources, for the report.
