KIEV, Dec. 20 - President Viktor Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and parliamentarian and businessman Rinat Akhmetov are at the top of the list of the 200 most influential Ukrainians in 2007 compiled by Focus weekly magazine.

Focus Editor-in-Chief Mykhailo Hladky, who made the rating list public in Kiev on Thursday, said this information should be viewed as the most appropriate result of 2007. He said the list of the 200 most influential people in Ukraine was compiled for the first time ever.