The list of 100 most influential people in the world got one Russian.

The list of 100 most influential people in the world according to American magazine Time, published April 30, got one Russian - deputy chairman of Gazprom and head of LLC "Gazprom export" Alexander Medvedev.
In the article Time, written by the director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, Dmitri Trenin, Medvedev named a man, through which passes a third of the gas consumed by Europe. In addition to Medvedev, in the category of "the creators and the Titans" came such famous people as mediamagnat Mexican Carlos Slim, the Minister of Finance Timothy Gaytner United States and accused of creating the largest financial pyramid in the history of Bernardo Meydoff.
In the category of "leaders and revolutionaries" Time mentions, among others, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Foreign Minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, U.S. President Barack Obama, as well as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin, got on the list of Time last year and at that time a former president, this year is not included among the most influential people in the world.
In the category "artists and representatives of show business" is worth noting actresses Penelope Cruz and Kate Uinslet Chinese pianist Lana Lan, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamelya, as well as American TV Jay Leno and comedienne Tin Fei successfully mimic Sarah Peylin, which is also included in the list.
In the hundred most influential people in the world also includes the pilot Sallenberger Chelsea in January 2009, put on a Hudson River in New York on Airbus A-320 with 155 passengers on board a Mexican drug lords Joaquin Guzman for assistance in the capture of which is assigned a reward of five million dollars and the holder of the Nobel Prize in Economics 2008, Paul Krugman.
It is also worth noting the presence in the list of the creators of the service mikroblogov Twitter Biz Stone and Evan Williams, as well as the creator of the popular 4chan imidzhborda moot'a (Christopher Poole), got on the list of results by the readers vote at Time. According to some reports, these results were rigged.