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Lawyer and politician Alexei Navalny entered the list of the hundred most influential people in the world , compiled by the American magazine Time. Navalny became the only Russian on the list. The editors and experts of the magazine noted his merits in the association of participants in the protest movement with the help of social networks.
“In addition to perseverance, courage and professionalism, Navalny also has the more subtle qualities necessary for leadership in the modern world,” the Time Leader Harry Kasparov writes about him in the special issue of Time. “His charisma is complemented by sarcastic humor, perfectly suitable in order to strike with gray and alien laughter of the Kremlin propaganda.”
According to the results of user voting on the website of the magazine Navalny, he took the sixth place of 200 candidates. About 92 thousand people voted for the inclusion of Navalny in the list, against 77 thousand. In the number of votes, the Anonymous hackers group leads - the only collective participant in the rating.
Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner also appeared in the list of applicants. “It was a long way, but still Milner came to the Silicon Valley,” Time said. Since 2009, the co -owner of Mail.ru Group and DST Global invested in American companies such as Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, Twitter and Spotify. Milner, however, did not enter the final Time list.
There was not a single Russian in the last year's list . In 2009, the general director of Gazprom Export LLC Alexander Medvedev was included in the list of the most influential people. In the list of "world losers" - the least influential person of 2010, in particular, the former head of the Russian Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev appeared .
“These people inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world,” Time writes about the participants in the 2012 rating. These are politicians, businessmen, scientists, sport stars and show business. In the modern world, the nature of leadership has changed, it is easy to influence, but this influence is not long -lived, Time notes in an editorial article. “We tried to choose people whose influence is simultaneously stable and positive,” the editors explains the principles of compiling a list.
The list of the hundred most influential people in the world was first compiled in 1999, since 2004 it has been published annually.
