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Putin tops list of most powerful people
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14:04 04.01.2013
An article in leading US magazine Foreign Policy has named Putin as
the most powerful person in the world, with the top spot left empty.
The author, Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group, explains why
no one is ranked first as being because `in a G-Zero world, everyone
is waiting for someone else to shoulder responsibility for the world's
toughest and most dangerous challenges.'
He based the ranking on `a quick, informal survey around Eurasia Group
on power and global politics.'
`The leaders you'll see named further down this list are preoccupied
with local and regional problems and don't have the interest and
leverage needed to take on a growing list of transnational problems,'
he wrote.
After the top spot's empty chair, Putin comes in second. `In Russia's
personalized system, this is still the person who counts. He isn't as
popular as he used to be, and his country has no Soviet-scale clout or
influence, but no one on the planet has consolidated more domestic and
regional power than Putin,' the magazine said.
The Russian president is followed by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben
Bernanke, who is ranked third, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (4) and
US President Barack Obama in fifth place.
Then come European Central Bank head Mario Draghi (6), Chinese
Communist Party Secretary General Xi Jinping (7), Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (8), International Monetary Fund chief
Christine Lagarde (also 8) and Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abd al-Aziz
(10).
http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/01/04/putin-tops-list-of-most-powerful-people/
14:04 04.01.2013
An article in leading US magazine Foreign Policy has named Putin as
the most powerful person in the world, with the top spot left empty.
The author, Ian Bremmer, President of the Eurasia Group, explains why
no one is ranked first as being because `in a G-Zero world, everyone
is waiting for someone else to shoulder responsibility for the world's
toughest and most dangerous challenges.'
He based the ranking on `a quick, informal survey around Eurasia Group
on power and global politics.'
`The leaders you'll see named further down this list are preoccupied
with local and regional problems and don't have the interest and
leverage needed to take on a growing list of transnational problems,'
he wrote.
After the top spot's empty chair, Putin comes in second. `In Russia's
personalized system, this is still the person who counts. He isn't as
popular as he used to be, and his country has no Soviet-scale clout or
influence, but no one on the planet has consolidated more domestic and
regional power than Putin,' the magazine said.
The Russian president is followed by US Federal Reserve chairman Ben
Bernanke, who is ranked third, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (4) and
US President Barack Obama in fifth place.
Then come European Central Bank head Mario Draghi (6), Chinese
Communist Party Secretary General Xi Jinping (7), Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (8), International Monetary Fund chief
Christine Lagarde (also 8) and Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abd al-Aziz
(10).