Time magazine has placed Putin and Erdogan to each other in its ranking – Rosbalt.RU

April 21, 2016, 16:58 | rating | Influence | Russia

 Total two Russians included in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world American magazine Time. One of them – President Vladimir Putin, second – co-founder of Mail.ru Group, Yuri Milner investing right now in ambitious space projects

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 Rating is divided into five categories: “Pioneers”, “Titans,” “Artists,” “Leaders”, “Idols”. By the editors of Time pioneers ranked rapper and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, American comedian Aziz Ansari and Kurdish activist Nadia Murad. As artists highlighted Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, the Italian writer Elena Ferrante, actor and singer Oscar Isaac.

 Putin, according to the magazine is on the 29-th line in the “Leaders” quadrant. Just behind Putin should be president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At the top – the director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, on the last North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. This list also repeatedly subjects of a number of past ratings Time US leader Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

 In the “Titans” first line of the founder of social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Milner became the 11th.

 By idols edition drifted Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt and Chinese medical Tu Yu, won the Nobel Prize.

The attitude of the Russian Federation and Turkey osportilis after 24 November 2015. Then a Russian bomber Su-24 was shot down by a rocket-type “air-air”, released in Turkish F16 fighter from Syria borders. Turkish Ministry of Defense announced that the plane violated the airspace of the country and has received five warnings about ten minutes before he was shot down. Russian Ministry of Defense stressed that the F16 shot down a Su-24 in the territory of Syria, when he returned to the airbase “Hmeymim».

The pilot Oleg Peshkov died, navigator Konstantin Murahtinu escaped. Erdogan expressed regret over the incident. Moscow later announced the introduction of economic sanctions against Turkey, and Ankara – the preparation of the response

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