Vladimir Putin is the most powerful person in the world

The Russian presiden Vladimir Putin is the most powerful person on the earth in line with Time readers, at least. Vladimir Putin won the journal readers’ ballot for who should high its annual record of the sector’s a 100 most powerful figures, edging out Lee Chae-rin – a member of the South Korean pop group 2NE1 who is healthier often called "CL" – to say the top spot with a whopping 6.Ninety five percentage of the vote Monday night time.

He used to be the only world leader to position within the high 5, an echelon that used to be in any other case the fiefdom of feminine pop stars, including girl Gaga, Rihanna and Taylor Swift.

What this says about the cultural and political leanings of Time readers vote casting within the poll is doubtful. Putin just isn't a pop icon, however the world does have a primarily acute obsession with seeing him shirtless.

It is also tricky to qualitatively examine the contributions Putin and his closest rivals for Time’s high berth had on the arena in 2014. For example, Putin will have completed the annexation of Crimea and led Russia right into a interval of the worst relations it has experienced with the West considering that the top of the Soviet Union, however Swift accomplished the transition from country to pop in a chart-topping album named after the year of her delivery – which additionally happens to be the yr the Berlin Wall came down.

The poll doesn’t depend for much, except probably Time’s net site visitors. Time's employees used to be careful to note on the ballot invitation page that “TIME’s editors will select the TIME a hundred” record that's formally announced on April 16. “we wish readers to have a say, too,” they introduced.

There is not any indication, nonetheless, that the readers’ preferences will get any proportional consideration when curating the final list.

However, Russian state news outlets have been crowing concerning the victory.

“Vladimir Putin steals the exhibit in TIME one hundred reader’s poll,” Russian state-funded information channel RT cheered in a headline.

“Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named the winner” of the ballot, boasted Russian state information service Tass, glossing over the part about how he bested a bunch of pop stars and main with the good things: Putin beat out the Dalai Lama, the pope and President Obama.

Time took votes from Twitter, fb and its site. While the journal didn't announce what number of men and women voted within the ballot, greater than fifty seven percent of the votes got here from within the USA.