The ruble exchange rate, deposits in banks, jobs, the ability to travel abroad - all this now depends not on the market, but on the decisions they make. But politicians are also living people. We endlessly see one of them on the screens of the TV, knowing nothing about his real life. We see others much less often, but colleagues manage to spy on what they become outside the offices

President of Uruguay Jose Mukhika is known for his modesty: he is driving a 1987 Volkswagen Beatle Wheel, to the office and official events often comes to the barefoot sandals, without a tie and a jacket. His hobby is his flower farm in the vicinity of Montevideo. And, yes, last year the British magazine The Economist announced Uruguay “Country of 2013” (see The New Times No. 2 of January 27, 2014 )/Photo: Matilde Campodonico/AP/East News 
London Mayor Boris Johnson at the Glamis Adventure Playground playground in the London district Sedvell 
The first lady of the United States Michelle Obama, it turns out, loves jumpers, and right on the southern lawn of the White House

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is known for his passion for football: in the picture she cannot hide emotions at the German match - Greece

British Prime Minister David Cameron with Porosenkom Florence, whom the politician gave the Coggs farm: it is clearly difficult for them to part

Dancers at the Port Morsby Airport (Papua New Guinea) are escorted by the ex-Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard
Photo: London News Pictures/Rex/Fotodom, Olivier Douliery/ABACA Press/MCT/EAST News, Action Pictures/East News, David Hartley/Rex/Fotodom, Kym Smith/Newspix/Rex/Fotodom