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Putin on Time's 100 Most Influential List
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. The American magazine named the Russian president Person of the Year in 2007. Putin was ranked second in the “Leaders & Revolutionaries” after the Dalai Lama. Former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright wrote the article about him.
“After our first meetings, in 1999 and 2000, I described him in my journal as shrewd, confident, hard-working, patriotic, and ingratiating.' In the years since, he has become more confident and – to Westerners – decidedly less ingratiating,” Albright wrote. The illustration to the article shows a well-known portrait of Tsar Peter I with Putin's head superimposed on the tsar's.
Others in the ranking include U.S. President George W. Bush (7th place), former British prime minister Tony Blair (15th place among “Heroes & Pioneers”), Chinese President Hu Jintao (6th) , New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (1st place among “Scientists & Thinkers”) and the three U.S. presidential candidates – Barack Obama (3rd), Hillary Clinton (4th) and John McCain (5th). This is Time's fifth time compiling such a list.
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