Gleb Pavlovsky

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Gleb Pavlovsky

Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (Russian: Глеб Олегович Павловский, born in Odessa on March 5, 1951) is a pro-Kremlin political scientist and adviser of Presidential Administration of Russia. During Soviet times he was prosecuted as a dissident^[1]. However, Pavlovskii's reputation as a Soviet-era human rights activist is not undisputed.. Human rights activist and widow of Nobel Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov Yelena Bonner once said of Pavlovskii: "I knew Pavlovskii for what he was back in 1980 or 1981, when he gave evidence against Sergei Kovalev's son to the KGB," "Moskovskii komsomolets", which is close to Moscow Mayor Yurii Luzhkov, reported.

Pavlovsky is the president of the Foundation for Effective Politics.[1] In 1997 he helped found the Russian Journal.[2] Since 2005 he has hosted weekly news commentary programme Real Politics at 10 p.m. on Saturdays on NTV.

On February 8, 2007, Moscow State University marked the 125th anniversary of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's birthday with high-level conference "Lessons of the New Deal for Modern Russia and the World" attended, among others, by Vladislav Surkov and Gleb Pavlovsky. There Surkov drew an explicit parallel between the U.S. president and Russian president Vladimir Putin, praising the legacy of Roosevelt's New Deal, and between the U.S. of the 1930s and present-day Russia, while Gleb Pavlovsky called on Putin to follow Roosevelt in staying for the third presidential term.^[2]

[edit] Ukrainian controversy

Gleb Pavlovsky is considered to have been heavily involved with the highly controversial Ukrainian presidential election, 2004, supporting the ultimately defeated (after allegations of fraud and an overturning of the result by the Supreme Court of Ukraine) Viktor Yanukovych.

In early 2005, Gleb Pavlovsky became the center of controversy when an apparently tapped telephone conversation that mentioned his name aired on Kiev's Channel 5 TV. This tape linked him to the dioxin poisoning of Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko. However Gleb Pavlovsky categorically denied any connection of his to the poisoning.[3]