Foreign Policy: The representatives of Russia did not hit the hundred most influential minds of our time

American journal Foreign Policy has published a list of 100 most influential minds of our time. Headed by the head of the U.S. central bank, Ben Bernanke. Russians are not listed.

In the list of Foreign Policy people whose ideas changed the world in 2009. In the first five for Bernanke’s next president, Barack Obama, Zahra Ranavard, wife of opposition candidate for president of Iran Mir Hossein Mousavi, economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the financial crisis, and a leading expert on climate change Razhdendra Pachauri.

In analytical article about the one on the list was not one of the authors of the journal, Moizes Naim, wrote: “A generation ago, such dissidents from the Soviet Union, Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who chained the attention of the world with their ideas about how to confront the totalitarian State “.

” The fact that today the Russians not in the list may reflect the ambivalent attitude to the world of post-Soviet Russia, – he adds. – If we assume that the global market of ideas receive priority thinkers from a very successful countries, or countries, poses a major threat, the lack of world interest in the ideas of Russia can be explained by the fact that Russia does not believe any miracle economies or global threat.