From 2 January the new Eastwest will be at newsstands, bookshops and available in digital format
WLADIMIR THE FIRST
The world fears him and that’s exactly why his people love him. In an Eastwest survey among its readers, Vladimir Putin was voted the most influential leader in the world today.
In this issue, we analyse this national and international success story.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Eastwest meets Dilma Rousseff in Porto Alegre. With great fervour, the former Brazilian president explains how her impeachment was in actual fact a coup.
EASTWEST LAUNCHES A NEW INQUIRY
How terrorism funds itself and the kind of money involved in organising attacks against helpless civilians.
As we did last year, we’ve carried out a survey amongst our readers (in almost 40 countries), asking who among the top ten most influential people of the past year has had the greatest impact on our lives. The respondents have crowned King Vladimir Putin by a broad margin, and thus we have dedicated the cover to him. The portrait is the creation of Alessandra Alma Masi’s tormented irony, the artist who drew a wonderful portrait of Queen Elizabeth II for our Brexit cover, our best-selling issue. In the English version we have chosen to leave the W in Wladimir (an archaic spelling from German) as a way of enhancing the imperial thrust, so reminiscent of the First Reich. ..and also, perhaps more subconsciously, of a graphic mural inscription hailing the result of our survey: at a time when true leader are at a premium, W Putin!! A distant second and third came British Prime Minister David Cameron, who called last June’s disastrous referendum, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in power since 2014, but effectively the country’s overlord for the past decade.
