Vladimir Putin has been selected as Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 2007.
Putin Man of Year News
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- Reuters: Putin Is Time Magazine's Person of the Year (December 19, 2007)
- Associated Press: "Putin Named Time "Person of the Year"" (December 19, 2007)
- TIME: "Choosing Order Before Freedom " (December 19, 2007)
- "...Whether he becomes more like the man for whom his grandfather prepared blinis...or like Peter the Great, the historical figure he most admires; whether he proves to be a reformer or an autocrat who takes Russia back to an era of repression—this we will know only over the next decade. At significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize, he has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power."
- TIME: "A Tsar Is Born - Person of the Year 2007" (December 19, 2007)
- Video: TIME's Interview with Vladimir Putin (December 19, 2007)
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