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    Putin tops list of most powerful people

    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).

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