Vladimir Putin picked as world's most influential person

Vanity Fair has unveiled its annual list of the world's 100 most powerful and influential people, what the magazine calls "the New Establishment", and topping the table for the first time is Vladimir Putin, according to reports. The Russian prime minister, who recently sparked an international crisis and enraged the US and European Union with Russia's military intervention in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region, replaces last year's chart-topper Rupert Murdoch. It is Mr Putin's first mention in the list, which Vanity Fair says "represents a global, moveable band of thinkers, owners, creators, and buyers who are the tastemakers, trendsetters,...

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