So here's why the folks at Time reckon Putin deserves the title for 2007.

"At significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize, he has performed an extraordinary feat of leadership in imposing stability on a nation that has rarely known it and brought Russia back to the table of world power," Stengel wrote.

"For that reason, Vladimir Putin is Time's 2007 Person of the Year."

"Putin is not a boy scout. He is not a democrat in any way that the West would define it. He is not a paragon of free speech," he wrote.

"He stands, above all, for stability - stability before freedom, stability before choice, stability in a country that has hardly seen it for a hundred years."

But c'mon... he deserves it for his work in fashion. CHECK OUT HIS BLOODY SUNGLASSES!

We hear he wears these uber-reflective shades to all high profile meetings, so foreign leaders can never actually see his eyes in order to assess if he's telling fibs or not. Brilliant!

Interestingly, past winners of the Time's Person Of The Year title include Hitler, Stalin, Bono... AND YOU.

Update your resume accordingly.