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{{Short description|Russian political scientist (1951–2023)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}{{Family name hatnote|Olegovich|Pavlovsky|lang=Eastern Slavic}}

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| image = Gleb Pavlovsky.jpg| alt = | caption = Pavlovsky in 2012| birth_name = Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky195105|df=y}}| birth_place = Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Uniondf=yes02195105}}| death_place = Moscow, Russia| nationality = Soviet Union | Russia}}| other_names = | alma_mater = Odesa UniversityJournalist|political scientist}}| years_active = | movement = | known_for = Human rights activism| awards = Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”| notable_works = | spouse = }}Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (; 5 March 1951 – 27 February 2023)WEB, ru,www.vedomosti.ru/society/news/2023/02/27/964358-umer-gleb-palovskii, Умер российский политолог Глеб Павловский, Vedomosti, 27 February 2023, was a Russian political scientist who also described himself as a “political technologist”. During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident.WEB, Русский Журнал. Досье. Глеб Павловский, Russian Journal dossier: Gleb Pavlovsky, “biographical information extracted from the four volume Иное”,old.russ.ru/journal/dosie/pavlovsk.htm, Russian Journal,old.russ.ru/journal/dosie/pavlovsk.htm," title="web.archive.org/web/20211120182416old.russ.ru/journal/dosie/pavlovsk.htm,">web.archive.org/web/20211120182416old.russ.ru/journal/dosie/pavlovsk.htm, 20 November 2021, ru, 1998, live, From 1996 to 2011, he was a political adviser to Vladimir Putin. Since then, he was a critic of the Russian government.Pavlovsky was president of the Foundation for Effective Politics (FEP).FEP {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050301085105www.fep.ru/ |date=1 March 2005 }} In 1997, he helped create “Russian Journal”, one of Russia’s oldest websites.“About the Russian Journal” {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717012622english.russ.ru/today/project.html |date=17 July 2011 }} 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 the Russian-language blog Gefter.ru.

Biography

Pavlovsky was born in Odesa in Ukraine on 5 March 1951 in a family of engineers. From 1968 to 1973, he studied history at Odesa University. His first publication (in a university newspaper) was censored by the Politburo because of its alleged “anarchistic and left- extremist mood”.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}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“). At this stage, Pavlovsky began to increase his links to the dissident movement in Odesa. In the 1970s, he went to Moscow to meet fellow dissidents: {{ill|Mikhail Gefter|ru|Гефтер, Михаил Яковлевич}}, {{ill|Genrikh Batishev|ru|Батищев, Генрих Степанович}}, Grigory Pomerants, and other associates. He first came into contact with the KGB in 1974.WEB, Krastev, I, Pavlovsky, G, Zhurzhenko, T, The politics of no alternatives or ‘How power works in Russia’: an interview with Gleb Pavlovsky,www.eurozine.com/the-politics-of-no-alternatives-or-how-power-works-in-russia/, Eurozine,web.archive.org/web/20170923002727/https://www.eurozine.com/the-politics-of-no-alternatives-or-how-power-works-in-russia/, 23 September 2017, 9 June 2011, live, en, Sherwood J, As the 1970s 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 to three years in exile in the Komi Republic.WEB, The Trial of Gleb Pavlovsky, 18 August 1982 (65.1),chronicle-of-current-events.com/2019/02/16/the-trial-of-gleb-pavlovsky/, A Chronicle of Current Events,web.archive.org/web/20210512170053/https://chronicle-of-current-events.com/2019/02/16/the-trial-of-gleb-pavlovsky/, 12 May 2021, First published 18 August 1982, but not circulated (or translated) until publication on the ‘Rights in Russia’ website on 20 November 2014, en, English-language translation from the original Russian, Crowfoot, J, 16 February 2019, live, Before the trial, he initially collaborated with the authorities, although during the trial he disowned his testimony. In Komi, he made a living as a house painter and stoker. By 1985, he had returned to civilian life in Moscow, where he was able to pursue further engagements.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.NEWS, Kirk, M, The Frontline Interview: Gleb Pavlovsky,www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview/gleb-pavlovsky/, 11 June 2022, Frontline, PBS, 2017, BOOK, Hill, F, Gaddy, CG, Fiona Hill (presidential advisor), Mr. Putin: operative in the Kremlin, 2013, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 9780815723769, 25, He was instrumental in the development of managed democracy in Russia at this time.WEB, Putin’s former ‘political technologist’ Gleb Pavlovsky dies – DW – 02/27/2023,www.dw.com/en/putins-former-political-technologist-gleb-pavlovsky-dies/a-64831903, 27 February 2023, dw.com, en, 29 July 2023, Pavlovsky was fired from this position in the spring of 2011.NEWS,newleftreview.org/issues/II88/articles/gleb-pavlovsky-putin-s-world-outlook, Gleb Pavlovsky: Putin’s World Outlook. Interview by Tom Parfitt. What are the roots of Putin’s ideological worldview?, New Left Review, Parfitt, Tom, July 2014, 13 February 2020, He became a critic of the Russian government. In a 2012 interview, he said he did not expect Putin to stay in power beyond 2018.NEWS, MacKinnon, Mark, 13 March 2012, A former Kremlin spin doctor rues his role in Putin’s rise, en-CA, The Globe and Mail,www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-former-kremlin-spin-doctor-rues-his-role-in-putins-rise/article533660/, 27 February 2023, Pavlovsky died on 27 February 2023, aged 71, after a long and serious illness.NEWS, 27 February 2023, Ex-Kremlin Adviser Gleb Pavlovsky Dies at 71,www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/02/27/ex-kremlin-adviser-gleb-pavlovsky-dies-at-71-a80344, The Moscow Times, 29 July 2023,

Media

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• 1991—1992 — vice chair of “Kommersant” publishing house.
• 1994—1995 — editor-in-chief quarterly published magazine “Переделы Власти”
• 1995—1996 — founder and co-editor of “Sreda” magazine.
• 1995—2009 — co-creator of {{ill|Foundation of Effective Politics|ru|Фонд эффективной политики}} (, along with Maxim Meyer and Marat Gelman).
• 1997—co-founder and editor-in-chief of internet magazine “Russian journal”.
• 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 {{ill|Mikhail Gefter|ru|Гефтер, Михаил Яковлевич}} (1918–1995).

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External links

• Gleb Pavlovsky obituary: the man who turned Vladimir Putin into Russia’s action man
• gefter.ru
• europublish.ru/" title="web.archive.org/web/20130524123525europublish.ru/">Europe publishing house
• www.rferl.org/specials/russianelection/bio/pavlovskii.asp" title="web.archive.org/web/20050223130232www.rferl.org/specials/russianelection/bio/pavlovskii.asp">Biography of Pavlovsky
• Article about Pavlovsky on OpenDemocracy.net
• eu-press.org/blog/gleb-pavlovskiy-what-putin-is-most-afraid-of-is-to-be-left-out/" title="web.archive.org/web/20131113011734eu-press.org/blog/gleb-pavlovskiy-what-putin-is-most-afraid-of-is-to-be-left-out/">Interview with Pavlovsky 2013

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