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Dynasty: Vladimir Putin Named Russia’s Man of the Year 15th Straight Time

By Brandon C. Williams

Feb 4, 2014; Sochi, RUSSIA; Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin speaks during the Opening of the IOC Session prior to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games at Zimny Theatre. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 4, 2014; Sochi, RUSSIA; Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin speaks during the Opening of the IOC Session prior to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games at Zimny Theatre. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports /
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Wayne Gretzky, Barry Bonds and Michael Jordan have nothing on Russian President Vladimir Putin when it comes to Most Valuable Player awards. Putin just won his 15th straight Russian Man of the Year.

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Wayne Gretzky won nine Hart Trophies as the NHL’s Most Valuable Player. Barry Bonds and Michael Jordan each won six MVP trophies, yet neither of the three sports icons have nothing when it comes to Vladimir Putin.

Putin continued his streak of being Russia’s MVP, as an Interfax poll named him the country’s Man of the Year for a 15th consecutive time. The Russia media outlet conducted its annual poll last week, with 68 percent of the 1,500 who answered responded by naming the Russian president the Man of All Men. While talent tends to slowly erode over time, Putin’s popularity seems like a continual loop equal to Bonds’ 73-home run campaign in 2001, when he won the first of four straight MVPs with the San Francisco Giants.

This year’s race had Putin receiving 17 times the total of the second place finisher, politician and hardcore leader of the  “Let’s take Russia back to the hammer and sickle days,” Vladimir Zhirinovsky. That, my friends, is called a rout.

What makes this year more interesting is that Putin more than doubled the vote he received in 2013, when he managed just 32 percent of the total. Obviously, (allegedly) starting wars in the Ukraine, thumbing his nose to the West helped bolster the fact Putin also presided over what turned out to be a very successful Winter Olympics despite the looming threats of terror leading into it,

Even with the Ruble’s value falling faster than Johnny Manziel’s, one would be foolish to bet against Putin needing to find more room for a possible 16th straight Russian MOY in 2015.

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