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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Olegovich and the family name is Pavlovsky.
Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky
Глеб Оле́гович Павло́вский
Gleb Pavlovsky during March 2012 rally
Born
Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky

(1951-03-05) 5 March 1951 (age 73)
Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship Soviet Union (1951–1991) →  Russian Federation (1991–present)
Alma materOdessa University
Occupation(s)Journalist, political scientist
Known forHuman rights activism
AwardsOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland"

Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (Template:Lang-ru; born 5 March 1951) is a Russian political scientist who also describes himself as a "political technologist".[1] During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident.[2] From 1996 to 2011 he was a political adviser to Vladimir Putin. Since then, he has been a critic of the Russian government.

Pavlovsky is president of the Foundation for Effective Politics (FEP).[3] In 1997, he helped create "Russian Journal", one of Russia's oldest websites.[4] Pavlovsky and FEP organized and financed many early websites on the Runet, including Lenta.Ru. From 2005 to 2008, Pavlovsky hosted the weekly television news commentary "Real Politics", which was shown on NTV Russia at 10:00 P.M. on Saturdays. In 2012, he became editor-in-chief of Gefter.ru, a Russian-language blog.

Biography

Pavlovsky was born in Odessa in Ukraine on 5 March 1951 in a family of engineers. From 1968 to 1973, he studied history at Odessa University. His first publication (in a university newspaper) was censored by the Politburo because of its alleged "anarchistic and left- extremist mood".

At the age of 21, Pavlovsky and friends organized a political commune "Субъект Исторической Деятельности" (Subject of Historical Action), inspired by the spirit of the protests of 1968 and ideals of intellectual Marxism (at the time, he described himself as a "Zen Marxist"[5]). At this stage, Pavlovsky began to increase his links to the dissident movement in Odessa. In the 1970s, he went to Moscow to meet fellow dissidents: Mihail Gefter, Genrih Batishev, Grigory Pomerants and other associates. He first came into contact with the KGB in 1974.[5]

As the 70s went on, Pavlovsky cemented his place in Moscow's dissident movement and began publishing an underground newspaper entitled "Poiski", all while avoiding KGB interference. In 1982, he was arrested for anti-Soviet activity and sentenced for 3 years in exile in the Komi Republic.[6] Before the trial, he initially collaborated with the authorities, although during the trial he disowned his testimony.[5] In Komi, he made a living as a house painter and stoker. By 1985, he had returned to civilian life in Moscow, where was able to pursue further engagements.[5]

Between 1996 and 2011, Pavlovsky worked closely with Vladimir Putin as a Kremlin adviser and political strategist during Putin's initial tenure as president and prime minister.[7][1] Pavlovsky was fired from this position in the spring of 2011.[7][8] He has become a critic of the Russian government.[1]

Media

  • 1991—1992 — vice chair of "Kommersant" publishing house.
  • 1994—1995 — editor-en-chief quarterly published magazine "Переделы Власти"
  • 1995—1996 — founder and co-editor of "Sreda" magazine.
  • 1995—2009 — co-creator of Foundation of Effective Politics (Template:Lang-ru, along with Maxim Meyer and Marat Gelman).
  • 1997—co-founder and editor-en-chief of internet magazine "Russian journal". May be the first Russian blog.
  • 2005 — co-founder and editor of "Europe" publishing house.
  • April 2012 — founder and editor-in-chief of the Gefter.ru blog named after the Russian and Soviet historian Mihail Gefter [ru] (1918–1995).

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Kirk, M (2017). "The Frontline Interview: Gleb Pavlovsky". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved 11 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Русский Журнал. Досье. Глеб Павловский" [Russian Journal dossier: Gleb Pavlovsky]. Russian Journal ("biographical information extracted from the four volume Иное") (in Russian). 1998. Archived from the original on 20 November 2021.
  3. ^ FEP Archived 1 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "About the Russian Journal" Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b c d Krastev, I; Pavlovsky, G; Zhurzhenko, T (9 June 2011). "The politics of no alternatives or 'How power works in Russia': an interview with Gleb Pavlovsky". Eurozine. Translated by Sherwood J. Archived from the original on 23 September 2017.
  6. ^ "The Trial of Gleb Pavlovsky, 18 August 1982 (65.1)". A Chronicle of Current Events (English-language translation from the original Russian). Translated by Crowfoot, J. 16 February 2019 [First published 18 August 1982, but not circulated (or translated) until publication on the 'Rights in Russia' website on 20 November 2014]. Archived from the original on 12 May 2022. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 12 May 2021 suggested (help)
  7. ^ a b Hill, F; Gaddy, CG (2013). Mr. Putin: operative in the Kremlin. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780815723769.
  8. ^ Parfitt, Tom (July 2014). "Gleb Pavlovsky: Putin's World Outlook. Interview by Tom Parfitt. What are the roots of Putin's ideological worldview?". New Left Review. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
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