New Delhi: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made it to the list of 100 most influential people of Time Magazine for the year 2022. Zelensky, who has become the face of Ukrainian resistance against Russian invasion, has been named in the list for the first time.
Other leaders who made it to the list are Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Joe Biden, Chinese premier Xi Jinping, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen among others. The list was segregated into various categories such as Icons, Pioneers, Titans, Artists, Leaders and Innovators.
President Zelensky's description has been written by US President Joe Biden. "In President Zelensky, the people of Ukraine have a leader worthy of their bravery and resilience," Biden wrote. "The nations of the free world , inspired by the example of President Zelensky are more united, more determined, more purposeful than at any point in our recent memory," Biden further said.
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On including both Zelensky and Putin in the list, TIME's editor-in-chief and CEO said "they are the poles of this list, and of this moment".
"When our team gets together to choose the TIME100, we have one barometer: influence. Who shaped the year? Who stood up? Who stood out? Influence, of course, may be for good or for ill -- a dichotomy never more visible than in this year's TIME 100, which includes both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky. They are the poles of this list, and of this moment. The Russian dictator behind a brutal war, and his foe, the Ukrainian President, whose leadership has made him a rare heroic figure in our divisive time," the editor-in-chief said.
Here Is The Full List:
ARTISTS: Simu Liu, Andrew Garfield, Zoë Kravitz, Sarah Jessica Parker, Amanda Seyfried, Quinta Brunson, Pete Davidson, Channing Tatum, Nathan Chen, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Strong, Faith Ringgold, Ariana DeBose, Jazmine Sullivan, Michael R Jackson.
INNOVATORS: Zendaya, Taika Waititi, Miranda Lambert, Derrick Palmer and Chris Smalls, Josh Wardle, Michelle Zauner, Demna, Timnit Gebru, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Bela Bajaria, Sevgil Musaieva, Francis Kéré, David Vélez, Michael Schatz, Karen Miga, Evan Eichler, and Adam Phillippy.
TITANS: Tim Cook, Oprah Winfrey, Christine Lagarde, Michelle Yeoh, Gautam Adani, Kris Jenner, Andy Jassy, Sally Rooney, Hwang Dong-hyuk, Sam Bankman-Fried, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Alex Morgan, Elizabeth Alexander, David Zaslav.
LEADERS: Mia Mottley, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Rogan, Xi Jinping, Ursula von der Leyen, Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden, Yoon Suk-yeol, Vladimir Putin, Olaf Scholz, Samia Suluhu Hassan, Kevin McCarthy, Karuna Nundy, Abiy Ahmed, Kyrsten Sinema, Gabriel Boric, Khurram Parvez, Letitia James, Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, Lynn Fitch, Umar Ata Bandial, Sun Chunlan.
ICONS: Mary J Blige, Dmitry Muratov, Issa Rae, Keanu Reeves, Adele, Rafael Nadal, Maya Lin, Jon Batiste, Nadine Smith, Peng Shuai, Hoda Khamosh.
PIONEERS: Candace Parker, Frances Haugen, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Sônia Guajajara, Stéphane Bancel, Emily Oster, Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Panmao Zhai, Eileen Gu, Tulio de Oliveira and Sikhulile Moyo, Nan Goldin, Mazen Darwish and Anwar Al Bunni, Emmett Schelling, Cristina Villarreal Velásquez and Ana Cristina González Vélez, Gregory L Robinson.