Amanda Macias and Jeremy Bender: Here’s why Forbes named Putin the most powerful leader
US President Barack Obama, right, listens to Russia's President Vladimir Putin before the opening of the first plenary session of the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, Monday, June 18, 2012.
For the second straight year, Russian President Vladimir Putin was named the World's Most Powerful Person by Forbes magazine. Leading international counterparts like Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping, Putin takes the lead based on "an evaluation of hard power."
