The largest thinkers-2012: Pussy Riot, Chirikova, Kaspersky and Dick Cheney

Foreign Policy magazine has compiled a list of 100 largest political thinkers of the year. Each year, the index publishes the top of the most authoritative person in the world of politics, economics and art. The first list was compiled by an American political science magazine in 2005. In 2012, along with American presidents, British writers and journalists, Russian oppositionists Alexei Navalny and Evgenia Chirikov, Punch group Pussy Riot and the main programmer of the country Yevgeny Kaspersky were included in the short list of the choice of the magazine.

Aun San Su Ji, 1st place

The head of the opposition party of Burma, opposing the military junta. The daughter of one of the most famous Burmese independence fighters. She spent 15 years under house arrest. In 1991, she received the Nobel Prize of the World.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton, 3rd place

The 42nd US President from the Democratic Party and US Secretary of State in the office of President Barack Obama is the most successful political couple of America. In addition to conducting social reforms, reducing the level of unemployment and lobbying in the army of open homosexuals, the favorite of the Americans Clinton is also known for a loud sexual scandal with the participation of the Belo House of Monica Levinsky, who threatened the president with impeachment. Largely thanks to Hillary and her unconditional support, Bill Clinton managed to resolve the conflict. Hillary Clinton owns the Clinton Global Initiative project, the essence of which is the cooperation of the richest and most authoritative people of the world to jointly solve global problems.

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Bill Gates and Melinda Gates, 5th place

One of the richest couples in the world. Bill Gates is the largest shareholder of Microsoft. In September 2012, his fortune is estimated at 66 billion dollars. Together with his wife Melinda, Gates created a charity fund in which he invested more than $ 28 billion. As part of the work of the Melinda Gates Foundation, he is actively fighting poverty, for the spread of vaccines, vaccinations and contraceptive means in dysfunctional countries. Gates are considered the most generous with charity by a couple.

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Benjamin Netanyahu, 13th place

For the first time he took the post of Prime Minister of Israel in 1996. He was elected head of government for the second time in 2009 and still holds a post. In 2005 he left the post of Minister of Finance in protest against the creation of Arab settlements in Gaza. The merit of Netanyahu, according to the publication, is that, together with the Minister of Defense, Ehud Barack, he drew attention to the world community to the danger of the Iranian nuclear project. He served in an elite intelligence unit and participated in several over -secret combat operations. He was wounded twice.

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Pussy Riot, 16

The Russian punk group Pussy Riot in the person of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich became famous for her performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The performance of the song "The Virgin, Putin of the run" was worth the participants of the prison group. In support of Pussy Riot, many Western musicians, writers and public figures spoke out.

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Ai Weeei, 26th place

Chinese artist, curator, architect. It takes 24th place in the list of the most influential people in the world according to Time magazine. In 2011, he was arrested by the Chinese authorities and released only after the world protest rally in defense. At the moment, the artist is forbidden to leave China.

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Cheryl Sandberg, 31 place

An American entrepreneur, the first woman who managed to enter the board of directors of the Facebook Corporation. In 2012, she fell into the annual list of the most influential people in the world, compiled by the American Time.

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Salman Rushdi, 33 place

British writer of Indian descent. For more than 15 years he was hiding from the Islamists who threatened him, by order of the Iranian spiritual leader Khomeini, the death penalty for the novel "Shaitan Aita". In 2012, he published an autobiography "Joseph Anton", in which he talked about how he managed to avoid the revenge of extremists.

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Dick Cheney, 38 place

Republican, the most influential person in the offices of Bush Sr. and Bush Jr.. One of the authors of the operation "Storm in the desert" conducted in Iraq in 1989. In 2006, he was a contender for the World Harry for Stupidity. The fierce critic of the policy of Barack Obama.

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Condoliza Rice, 39th place

The first African American woman to the US Secretary of State. National Security Advisor in the first office of President George Bush - the youngest. In 2004 and 2005, the most influential woman in the world, according to Forbes magazine. She repeatedly spoke out for the use of torture to prisoners suspected of terrorism. Rice freely speaks Russian, French, German and Spanish. In her youth she wanted to become a pianist and was engaged in music professionally. In 2012, she made a speech at the National Convention of the Republican Party, in which she criticized the policy of Barack Obama.

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Evgeny Kaspersky, 40th place

Russian programmer, creator of the famous antivirus program. In 1987 he graduated from the "Higher Red Banner School of the KGB" (now the Academy of the FSB of Russia). Since 2010, a member of the Skolkovo Consulting Scientific Council. In 2012, he reminded the world and IT companies that cyber weapons are today one of the most dangerous, and published the secrets of cyberum.

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Alexey Navalny, 45th place

One of the leaders of the Russian opposition, lawyer, blogger. He founded and continues to lead the largest anti -corruption project "Rospil". He took first place in the elections to the Coordinating Council of the opposition. According to the authors of the rating, he almost alone revived the culture of polyactivism in Russia. The main organizer and inspirer of anti -Putin rallies and therefore - enemy No. 1 of the Kremlin. In the Foreign Policy rating, Navalny for the second time: in 2008, he took 24th place thanks to his anti -corruption activities.

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Evgenia Chirikova, 70 place

Oppositionist, leader of the Ecological Defense movement. Organized a large -scale movement in defense of the Khimki forest. Khimkinsky protest was the first step towards the All -Russian opposition movement. I was arrested many times. In 2012, she nominated her candidacy for the mayor of the city of Khimki and received only the second place in many respects due to falsifications that took place. She proved to everyone that an ordinary woman can fight against a state car.

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Tarik Ramadan, 87 place

The Swiss theologian of Egyptian origin, the grandson of one of the founders of the Muslim Brothers, Professor of the University of Oxford. It is transmitted on the satellite channel Press TV. The ideologist of Euro -Islamism, calling to adapt Islam to the realities of European civilization. In his opinion, Islam does not contradict Western culture: both of these phenomena can be combined.

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