The Time Magazine has just published that Person of the Year 2011 (click to enlarge):
The Protester - The Time (c) person of the year 2011
Nice design! As Russia is mentioned as well (Moscow), I see we can oppose Vladimir Putin (TIME’s 2007 Person of the Year) to that Anonymous on the Time cover. The face of the many, but I hope not the legion.
Well that could be Alexey Navalny as well, let me quote how the Time explains the situation in Russia. They describe the protest recipe as follows: pseudodemocratic regime overreach, high Internet use, robust new media and suddenly galvanized middle-class youth, … these Russian protesters are a new breed, not just nostalgic old communist grandmas or bullyboy nationalists but yuppies, students, the best and brightest.
The Time also quotes Navalny: “They can laugh and call us microbloggers. They can call us the hamsters of the Internet. Fine. I am an Internet hamster. But I know they are afraid of us.” … “It’s impossible to beat and arrest hundreds of thousands, millions. We are not cattle or slaves. We have voices and votes, and we have the power to uphold them.”
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