In the list of “100 most influential people in the world» Time includes two Russians – RBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Photo: REUTERS 2016

Time magazine published its annual list of the hundred most influential people in the world, which included two Russians. In addition to Vladmir Putin, who has already appeared on the list in previous years, it proved to be an investor Yuri Milner

In the new list of the hundred most influential people according to Time, wich was released on April 21 on the magazine’s website, includes two representatives of Russia -. President Vladimir Putin and Internet investor Yuri Milner

Head of state was represented by a professor at Columbia University and senior fellow in international relations Stephen Sestanovich Council, which in the late 1990s was the US special envoy to the former Soviet Union.

Introducing the Russian leader, Sestanovich described his imaginary dialogue with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in which Putin supposedly describes his most high-profile decisions and initiatives of recent years. In this imaginary dialogue, in particular, referred to the difficulties in the economy, the situation in Syria and the Ukraine, Putin allegedly recognized Medvedev that “he has no solutions” to these problems.

Yuri Milner represented by physicist Stephen Hawking . As RBC wrote, they cooperate in the work on the program Breakthrough Starshot, the purpose of which is to launch a spacecraft capable of flying to the stars at a rate of 160 million km / h.

Calling Milner “little dreamer,” Hawking said that its investments are long-term and supporting fundamental, but it is under-funded projects, such as the search for life in the universe and the method of interstellar travel. “At the heart of his vision – a sense of scale”, – concludes Hawking

Time included Putin in section “Leaders” which also hit the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, French President Francois Hollande, US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. and Donald Trump, acting head of the Barack Obama government, Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, and others.

Milner was included in the ‘Titans’ section, where he company made Apple CEO Tim Cook, Pope Francis, the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan.

In last year’s list, Time Putin was the only Russian. Then the American political scientist and founder of the world’s largest consultancy in the field of political risk Eurasia Group Ian Bremmer, who represented the Russian leader noted that no one in the world, but Putin “does not have such a great power in the country, so important for international politics and the global economy . »

After that, Putin said that he was indifferent to hit the list, but thanked the participants of the survey, which, he said,” showed a sign of respect “toward Russia.

in 2014, the reasons for the inclusion of the Russian leader in the top 100 most influential people in the world Time named the journalists joining the Crimea, Russia’s energy policy and the confrontation with NATO.