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January 3, 2013

Is Putin the World's Most Powerful Person?

Ian Bremmer, The Call

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A few days ago, I took a quick, informal survey around Eurasia Group on power and global politics. The question: Who are the world's most powerful people? We're defining power as "a measure of an individual's ability to (singlehandedly) bring about change that significantly affects the lives and fortunes of large numbers of people."

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TAGGED: Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz, Christine Lagarde, Ayatollah Khamenei, Xi Jinping, Mario Draghi, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, Ben Bernanke, leaders, Vladimir Putin

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