Person of the Year (Expert magazine)

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Since 2002 Expert magazine nominates 'Person of the Year' - one or several individuals who significanly influenced economic, business, political or societal development in Russia any given year. 'Person of the Year' is nominated in the final issue each year (#48 or #49, always end of December). Since the first announcement all 'Persons of the Year' have been nationals of the Russian Federation. The nomination is similar to Person of the Year by the US Time magazine. 'Person of the Year' is normally featured on the cover of Expert magazine's end-year issue

Year	Choice	Age	Notes
2002	Alexander Khloponin	37	First person chosen, Governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai (since 2002), former chairman of the board of Norilsk Nickel. Chosen for transition from business to the government, seen to set example for the new Russian elite
2003	Roman Abramovich and Mikhail Khodorkovsky	37 and 40	Key shareholders of (correspondingly) Sibneft and Yukos oil companies. Both men were hailed for adapting best corporate governance policies to run their companies efficiently and profitably.
2004	Mikhail Fradkov	54	Russian Prime Minister in 2004-2007.
2005	Dmitry Medvedev and Alexei Miller	40 and 43	Correspondingly Gazprom's chairman of the board (since 2002) and CEO (since 2001).
2006	Sergey Lavrov	56	Russian Foreign Minister (since 2004)
2007	Vladimir Putin	55	Russian President (since 2000)