Putin second to 'Nobody' on world's most powerful list - thinktank

Published time: January 04, 2013 07:16
Edited time: January 05, 2013 14:45
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International political thinktank Eurasia Group has ranked Russian President Vladimir Putin second on its list of the world's most powerful people. The first position is held by 'Nobody,' reflecting the perception of a world without a clear leader.

­The list, published by Foreign Policy magazine, ranks individuals’ ability to singlehandedly “bring about change that significantly affects the lives and fortunes of large numbers of people.”

Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer explained that he left the fist position empty because the modern world has no clear leader, and those in power are focused on domestic or regional issues rather than global challenges.

1. Nobody
2. Vladimir Putin
3. Ben Bernanke
4. Angela Merkel
5. Barack Obama
6. Mario Draghi
7. Xi Jinping
8 (tie). Ayatollah Khamenei
8 (tie). Christine Lagarde
10. King Abdullah Bin Abd al-Aziz

Putin’s second-place rank is due to “Russia's personalized system,” and the influence the country wields in regional affairs.

Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke holds the third position because of the number of levers he can pull to influence the US economy, and by extension the global economy.

Other individuals mentioned are German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for policies that are “the glue that binds Europe,” US President Barack Obama, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and China’s new leader Xi Jinping.

Tied for 8th place are Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde.

The ailing ruler of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah Bin Abd al-Aziz, rounded the list for his ability to determine the succession of leadership in the hydrocarbon powerhouse.

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Moss-cow (unregistered) 06.01.2013 23:24

TO: Moss-cow (unregistered) wrote in #17
You show that you represent 99% Americans who cannot say hello in Russian. Also the Russians never use the word Moscow to pronounce the name of their capital city. So you are the cow and the idiot here. It is not the uneducated by also large number of the supposedly educated Americans who seem to know primarily how to insult the Russians often in crude English and yet most of them not say a word in Russian. So eat more GMO food and be off from this discussion. ============ ==================== ====Most of you russians still have down syndrome from bad public santiation I see. GMO food is actually more beneficial that anything grown in russia. Why you ask? because GM allows for nutritional optimization that little hippie organic farming could never attain. Go choke on some borshch you russian peasant.

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Nobody (unregistered) 06.01.2013 14:13

Now that I'm a celebrity I can do absolutely anything I want to anyone I choose, starting with Harry Potter for not snogging Hermione Grainger in scene 73 of the 47th Harry Savile movie, 'Jimmy Savile And The Magic Trouserbump'. If he's not prepared to cheat on his best friend and secret lover in front of the whole world then he's gonna be the first to get voted out of 'Top of The Popups Austerity Edition (featuring Jules Holland playing chopsticks at half-speed on xylophone)'.  

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9ke9 (unregistered) 05.01.2013 23:47

Freeworld wrote in #15
My my I'm smelling a lot of anti Russian people in here.. please do us all a favor and get the F out of here. Go to your own website like CNN, FOX etc...
dont stress its just nobody feeling a little insecure , someone might have loaned nobody a dial up modem , and shown them how to get connected , nobody might have seen the basket case that is "civilisation" under nobody , they may have realised that they failed. 

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