Both Putin and Zelensky are on TIME’s list
TIME has announced the list of 100 most influential people in 2022 and it has an unexpected feature. In the category of leaders, both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin are present.
Including both leaders in the list of the 100 most influential people can be controversial, but TIME’s Editor-in-Chief and CEO explain the choice by saying, “When our team put together TIME100, we had a barometer: influence. Who shaped the year? Who stood up? Who stands out? Of course, influence can be good or bad — a dichotomy has never been clearer than this year’s TIME100, which includes Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. They are the pole of this list, and of the moment. The Russian dictator is behind a devastating war, and his nemesis, the President of Ukraine, whose leadership has made him a rare hero in times of division. we “.
President Zelensky’s Please write down on paper written by none other than the United States of America, Joe Biden (who is also on the list). In it, he wrote, “In President Zelensky, the Ukrainian people have a leader worthy of their courage and resilience.” He went on to add, “The nations of the free world, inspired by the example of President Zelensky, are more united, more determined, more purposeful than at any time in recent memory. our.”
Of President Putin Please write down on paper was written by the Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, who is currently serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. Navalny in his column talks about the duck test, which basically means “if something looks like a duck, swims like a duck and squirms like a duck, it’s probably a duck”.
He continued this by saying, “The same logic applies in this case (to Putin): if someone destroys independent media, organizes political assassinations and gets involved his imperialist delusions, then he is a madman capable of causing a bloodbath in the heart of Europe in 21st century.
The annual list of influencers includes the pioneers, artists, giants, leaders and icons from around the year with the biggest influence.
