Vladimir Putin was the most influential politician of the past year. This assessment of the President of the Russian Federation was given by the American magazine Foreign Policy (http://eurasia.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/01/02/the_world_s_most_powerful_people), the fresh issue which goes on sale today.
Notably, Putin took the second place in the list, and nobody was considered as the first place. The reason for this was the global concern and the inability of world leaders to agree on a single vector of global development.
In the third place (second in the list) of famous politicians, business people and community leaders the readers "appointed" the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel ranked in the fourth place.
They were followed by the U.S. President Barack Obama, the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, and the Secretary General of China Xi Jinping.
On the eighth and ninth positions were the Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei and the head of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde. The ten was closed by the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. -17D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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