The list of influential people, according to Foreign Policy

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-