Gleb Olegowitsch Pavlovsky

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Gleb Pavlovsky

Gleb Olegowitsch Pawlowski ( Russian Глеб Оле́гович Павло́вский ; born March 5, 1951 in Odessa ) is a Russian political scientist.

Pavlovsky studied history at the University of Odessa from 1968 to 1973 and later moved to Moscow . There he was temporarily active in the Soviet dissident scene. In 1982 he was sentenced to prison for "anti-Soviet activity", but pleaded guilty in the course of the criminal proceedings and was instead sent into exile, from which he returned in December 1985. Pavlovski's information on this part of his biography is controversial.

Together with Marat Gelman , Pavlovsky founded the organization Фонд эффективной политики (Foundation for Effective Politics) in 1995 , which called itself the "Institute for Opinion Research and Election Management" and quickly developed into an important player in the emerging Russian Internet scene. The Foundation for Effective Politics has been instrumental in developing and running various election campaigns in Russia. A large part of Boris Yeltsin's victory in the presidential election campaign in 1996 is attributed to her, and she is said to have made a decisive contribution to the victory of Vladimir Putin in the 2000 presidential election . Pavlovsky is also credited with making a significant contribution to the establishment of the system of guided democracy in Russia. Pavlovsky was at times one of the best known but also one of the most controversial people in the Russian media landscape. In the western media he was repeatedly referred to as "The Gray Eminence of the Kremlin" or "Russia's Most Prominent Spin Doctor ".

In the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine , Pavlovsky supported the candidate Viktor Yanukovych , and has consistently denied a role that was temporarily attributed to him in the dioxin poisoning of the later election winner and President Viktor Yushchenko .

Between 2005 and 2009 Pavlovsky hosted the program Большая политика ( Big Politics ) on NTW TV . In 2009, the Foundation for Effective Politics set up a website that explained, among other things, the Kremlin's blogging school. It also supported President Medvedev's call to adhere to "historical truths" and to oppose foreign propaganda.

In the spring of 2011, Pavlovsky openly called for a further term in office for the then President Dmitri Medvedev , after which he lost his status as an advisor to the Russian presidential administration . Shortly afterwards he announced the dissolution of the Foundation for Effective Politics . Since then, Pavlovsky has expressed increasing public disapproval of Putin and the policies of the Russian government .

In December 2016, after the arrest of Economics Minister Alexei Ulyukayev, he described the system of Putin as “loyalty to fear”: Criminal proceedings could be opened against anyone at any time - the center of power could only trust them as long as the officials were afraid.

Web links

Commons : Gleb Olegowitsch Pawlowski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the University of Bochum, portrait of the Foundation for Effective Politics and von Pawlowski, as of October 2004
  2. ↑ The Gray Eminence of the Kremlin Playing with the Internet , Die Welt, January 2001
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau, November 2009
  4. ↑ A tape recorder as the indictment: Did ex-Putin adviser order an attack on Yushchenko? , news.at, February 2005
  5. ↑ Big politics- The once rebellious Russian broadcaster NTW starts a magazine , FAZ from August 20, 2005
  6. ↑ What do they teach at the “Kremlin's school of bloggers”? , foreignpolicy, May 26, 2009
  7. ↑ Putin has lost touch with reality , Die Welt, September 2011
  8. ↑ The Loyalty of Fear , The Moscow Times, November 16, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Pavlovsky, Gleb Olegowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Павло́вский, Глеб Оле́гович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa