Putin is much more influential than Obama by the readers of Time – Moskovsky Komsomolets

Editor’s Choice magazine planned to announce on April 16

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The Russian leader Vladimir Putin has won first place in the ranking of the hundred most influential people in the world by the readers of US magazine Time. US President Barack Obama, who took 11th place, managed to score only 1.4% of the vote.

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The voting ended last Friday, but its official results were announced just now. As noted on the website of the magazine Time, readers were invited to make their choice on the basis of how this or that person in the past year “changed the world, for better or worse”.

The Russian leader topped the rating of the hundred most influential people typing 6.95% of the vote. With some delay, the second place was South Korean pop star Lee Chae Rin, better known as CL.

In the third and fourth – representatives of pop Lady Gaga industry (2.6%) and Rihanna (1.9%) . Fifth place was taken by director Taylor Swift (1.8%), author of the controversial tape “Fifty Shades of Grey” by a worldwide bestseller.

In addition to Putin’s ten most influential people in the world, do not belong to the sphere of show business, entered The Dalai Lama, who collected 1.7% of the vote, a young Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (1.6% of the vote), and Pope Francis (1.5% of the vote).

US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle is not included in the top ten, gaining 1.4% and 1.2% of the vote respectively. Note that the list of the most influential people by Time edition version will be announced April 16.

Commenting on Putin’s leadership in the ranking, a spokesman for the president, Dmitry Peskov, said that in the Kremlin, the voting process is not followed. In addition, he noted that he did not know about the reaction of the president to win.

Vladimir Putin in November 2014 and the second time in a row topped the rating of the most influential people in the world by the US magazine Forbes. The publication called Putin a “Russian autocrat” and notes that the President of Russia “often shows its power at home and on the world stage”.

According to Forbes, Putin’s leadership in the rankings even in 2013 caused a heated debate. “But in a year when Putin annexed the Crimea, arranged mediated war in Ukraine and signed a deal worth more than $ 70 billion for the construction of a gas pipeline to China (the largest construction project in the world), our choice seems simple prophetic” – says the magazine.

The British newspaper The Times in December 2013th named President of the Russian Federation “Man of the Year”, noting that the 2013th was a year of great accomplishments for the head of the Russian state. Among them, the publication named Russia’s stance on Syria action against Ukraine, relations with the opposition within the country. “Vladimir Putin gave Russia its former strength,” – said The Times.