The Foreign Policy magazine published a list of the 500 most influential people in the world. (Http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/29/the_500_most_powerful_people_in_the_world). In this list there are no representatives of Azerbaijan, with the exception of Russian citizen Vahid Alekperov and several Iranian Azerbaijanis.
Officially rated version of the magazine Foreign Policy published. Recall that in the beginning of this year, the Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer gave in his personal blog his version of the most powerful men. In the first place it was vacant, the second was Putin, then settled down - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. President Barack Obama.
The current list is determined by experts from the magazine. It was headed by the head of the United States (Barack Obama), Russia (Vladimir Putin) and China (Xi).
Behind them is German chancellor, Angela Merkel, head of the Chinese search engine Baidu, Robin Li, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Thomas Donohue, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and the heir to the crown of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zahid Al Nahyan .
Next, in descending order, are representatives of politics, defense, ideology (including religion), the media, think tanks, etc.
Recent years have not revealed any world power center around which could form the elite of the planet. But there were many “workers for devil”.
"Fiends" are recognized: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the spiritual leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of North Korea's Kim Jong-un and the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammed al-Jaafari.
In addition to them, this "honor" was awarded to two heads of the Mexican criminal cartels - Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Joaquin Guzman Loher, leader of the Iraqi units "Al Qaeda," Abu Dua. Not far behind them, the head of the scientific department of Iranian nuclear center Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabbadi, the leader of the Afghan criminal network of Jalaluddin Haqqani, the leader of the Pakistani "Taliban" Hakimullah Mesud, the leader of "Hamas' Khaled Mashaal, the Russian mafia Semyon Mogilevich, etc.
In the list most are Americans - 142 people. 50 of them women. When compiling the list, they used all the available editing of influential ratings, including publications in Forbes, Times, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Global Finance, and others. - 17D-
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southerncommandza@gmail.com
2023-12-16
The list is incomplete and totally wrong, so sadly, has no bearing of reality.