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Putin Named Time Magazine's Person of the year
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http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/personoftheyear/0,28757,1690753,00.html
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/12/time_names_putin_as_person_of.html
Not sure if I agree in their choice or not but their reasons for choosing him are interesting.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/12/time_names_putin_as_person_of.html
Not sure if I agree in their choice or not but their reasons for choosing him are interesting.
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Well, they say their choice is not a plaudit but Putin has had a lot of impact on the world this year
BTW who knew the guy was a Black Belt in Judo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdXwu2MXR_s
Bet that kid was having 2nd thoughts about throwing him .. LOL
The Time award isnt neccessarily just for political leaders, is it?
1927Charles Augustus Lindbergh 1928Walter P. Chrysler 1929Owen D. Young 1930Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1931Pierre Laval 1932Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1933Hugh Samuel Johnson 1934Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1935Haile Selassie 1936Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson 1937Generalissimo & Mme Chiang Kai-Shek 1938Adolf Hitler 1939Joseph Stalin 1940Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1941Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1942Joseph Stalin 1943George Catlett Marshall 1944Dwight David Eisenhower 1945Harry Truman 1946James F. Byrnes 1947George Catlett Marshall 1948Harry Truman 1949Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 1950American Fighting-Man 1951Mohammed Mossadegh 1952Elizabeth II 1953Konrad Adenauer 1954John Foster Dulles 1955Harlow Herbert Curtice 1956Hungarian Freedom Fighter 1957Nikita Krushchev 1958Charles De Gaulle 1959Dwight David Eisenhower 1960U.S. Scientists 1961John Fitzgerald Kennedy 1962Pope John XXIII 1963Martin Luther King Jr. 1964Lyndon B. Johnson 1965General William Childs Westmoreland 1966Twenty-Five and Under 1967Lyndon B. Johnson 1968Astronauts Anders, Borman and Lovell 1969The Middle Americans 1970Willy Brandt 1971Richard Milhous Nixon 1972Nixon and Kissinger 1973John J. Sirica 1974King Faisal 1975American Women 1976Jimmy Carter 1977Anwar Sadat 1978Teng Hsiao-P'ing 1979Ayatullah Khomeini 1980Ronald Reagan 1981Lech Walesa 1982The Computer 1983Ronald Regan & Yuri Andropov 1984Peter Ueberroth 1985Deng Xiaoping 1986Corazon Aquino 1987Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1988Endangered Earth 1989Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev 1990The Two George Bushes 1991Ted Turner 1992Bill Clinton 1993The Peacemakers 1994Pope John Paul II 1995Newt Gingrich 1996Dr. David Ho 1997Andy Grove 1998Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr 1999Jeff Bezos 2000George W. Bush 2001Rudolph Giuliani 2002The Whistleblowers 2003The American Soldier 2004George W. Bush 2005Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, & Bono 2006You
Did you know you won it in 2006?
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1570835,00.html
So why do you say Putin had to be awarded this year before he left? (Sorry that I don't understand what you mean)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2230924,00.html
To keep this thread going, if Putin hadn't won, who would you have chosen instead?
Al Gore was probably in the running.
who would you choose instead then?
tbh the guy was probably a miracle worker for what he's done for russia since coming to power.
For his work ridding the world of Man Bear Pig if nothing else
Just glad they gave it to someone who actually deserved it rather than that self-righteous scumbag tosser Bono or someone similar.
Quite.
He has made a remarkable achievement with Russia - the country was practically fucked when he took over. He's made an achievement only one other Russian leader has made - and he was also a Time man of the year.