AboutNavalny, who is serving a term in a penal colony, was included in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was included in the “Idols” category, where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, tennis player Naomi Osaka and singer Britney Spears also appeared
Time magazine has published a rating of the most influential people in the world for 2021. The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who is serving time in a penal colony, got into it.
The rating is divided into six categories: “Idols”, “Pioneers”, “Giants”, “Artists”, “Leaders” and “Inventors”, each of which includes from 11 to 20 people.
Navalny was included in the “Idols” category, which also included British Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, tennis player Naomi Osaka, singer Britney Spears and Japanese baseball player Sehei Otani, who plays for the Los Angeles Angels club as a pitcher.
Alexey Navalny was detained on January 17 at Sheremetyevo Airport after returning from Berlin, where he was undergoing treatment and rehabilitation after poisoning. The Simonovsky court in early February replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence in the case of “Yves Rocher” with a real one. The oppositionist is due to be released at the end of July & mdash; early August 2023. Now Navalny is involved in three more criminal cases.
In the summer of 2017, Time named Navalny among the most influential people on the Internet. Then the magazine explained Navalny’s inclusion in the list by the fact that “his YouTube channel with 1 million subscribers broke the Kremlin’s information blockade” , and also “inspired mass anti-corruption protests”.
In the category of “Pioneers” were Billy Eilish, the lawyer of the family of the African-American George Floyd Ben Crump, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Fatih Birol, the Kenyan activist and Goldman Award winner Phyllis Omido, as well as the first Deputy President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen Frans Timmermans.
Among the “Giants” were Apple CEO Tim Cook, four-time Olympic champion in gymnastics from the United States Simone Biles, a star of the National Football League (NFL) Tom Brady, rappers Timbaland and Swizz Beatz, the most titled track and field athlete of the USA Allison Felix.
The category “Artists” included actresses Kate Winslet and Scarlett Johansson, rappers Lil Nas X and Bad Bunny, actors Omar Si and Daniel Kaluuya, as well as Chloe Zhao, who became the first woman of Asian descent to win an Oscar in the category “Best Director”.
“The leaders” this year are the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, President of Iran Ibrahim Raisi, Prime Ministers of Italy and Israel Mario Draghi and Naftali Bennett, head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rochelle Walensky, President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele and Acting Deputy Head of thethe Government of Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (leader of the political wing of the terrorist organization “Taliban” banned in Russia). For the second year in a row, the list of this category includes Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Joe Biden, his predecessor Donald Trump, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US Vice President Kamala Harris.
The category “Inventors” included SpaceX founder Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Canadian-Russian programmer Vitalik Buterin.
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