PUTTIN Pessoa do Ano

Mas porque é que será que o Sr. Puttin foi eleito a Pessoa do Ano pela TIME??? Grande surpresa para muita gente, principalmente para aqueles que estavam no rol dos candidatos como Al Gore e J. K. Rowling. Fica aqui um breve excerto retirado da Time:

TIME's Person of the Year is not and never has been an honor. It is not an endorsement. It is not a popularity contest. At its best, it is a clear-eyed recognition of the world as it is and of the most powerful individuals and forces shaping that world—for better or for worse. It is ultimately about leadership—bold, earth-changing leadership. Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech. He stands, above all, for stability—stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years. (http://www.time.com/)