{"id":121243,"date":"2023-12-06T17:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=121243"},"modified":"2023-12-06T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T17:59:12","slug":"putin-praised-for-restoring-order-in-unearthed-time-person-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/world-news\/putin-praised-for-restoring-order-in-unearthed-time-person-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin praised for restoring order in unearthed TIME Person of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin meets Alexander Lukashenko in September<\/h3>\n

Taylor Swift has been named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year after being shortlisted with a group of completely different characters, which included Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Barbie and the Hollywood actors and writers on strike.<\/p>\n

Swift took the world by storm this year, with her Eras Tour breaking box office records and her re-recording of her decade-old album 1989 becoming the biggest-seller of 2023.<\/p>\n

The award, which started in 1927, features a person, group, idea, or object that “for better or for worse… has done the most to influence the events of the year”.<\/p>\n

For better or for worse, in 2007, Putin was given the award for his role in transforming Russia after its turbulent fallout from the Soviet Union \u2014 though much of the praise given to him and his subsequent victory interview hasn’t aged well.<\/p>\n

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Naming him as its Person of the Year, TIME Magazine said he had returned his country from chaos to “the table of world power” though at a cost to democratic principles.<\/p>\n

The magazine’s managing editor at the time, Richard Sengel, said: “He’s not a good guy, but he’s done extraordinary things. He’s a new tsar of Russia and he’s dangerous in the sense that he doesn’t care about civil liberties; he doesn’t care about free speech; he cares about stability. But stability is what Russia needed and that’s why Russians adore him.”<\/p>\n

Things are different today, though similar in spirit. Last year, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, something which continues today and has become Europe’s biggest conflict since World War 2.<\/p>\n

Much of the world has galvanised against Russia in a bid to push it into withdrawing from its neighbour, placing heavy sanctions on the country and freezing its assets.<\/p>\n

It is thought that Russian GDP dropped by 2.1 percent in 2022, and will drop by a further 2.5 percent this year \u2014 though through loopholes and trade deals with other countries like China and India, Putin has managed to fend off what many in the West predicted would be Russia’s total collapse.<\/p>\n

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