Russian President Vladimir Putin was among the 50 people, “determined the shape of the decade.” The list was made by the journalists of the newspaper Financial Times, including in his 19 politicians, businessman 22 and 9 people from other fields.
In particular, the number of selected politicians were also Tayyip Erdogan, Emmanuel macron, Barack Obama, Donald trump, Angela Merkel, XI Jinping.
From well-known businessmen on the list were, for example, Apple CEO, founder of Amazon, one of the founders of Uber, the head of Tesla and founder of the Chinese Corporation Alibaba.
Also the journalists considered it important world figures of the ex-employee U.S. intelligence Edward Snowden, the leader of the mass protests in Hong Kong Joshua Wong and as well as the former Director of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, who became an informant for the world anti-doping Agency.