Gleb Olegovich Pavlovsky (Russian: Глеб Оле́гович Павло́вский, born in Odessa on March 5, 1951) is a Russian political scientist (he describes himself as a "political technologist"). He was an adviser to the Presidential Administration of Russia until April, 2011. During the Soviet era, he was prosecuted as a dissident.[1]
Pavlovsky is president of the Foundation for Effective Politics (FEP).[2] In 1997, he helped create "Russian Journal", one of the oldest Russian internet websites.[3] Pavlovsky and FEP organized and financed many early information projects in 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.
Gleb Pavlovsky is considered to have been heavily involved with the highly controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, supporting the ultimately defeated (after allegations of fraud, and overturning of the result by the Supreme Court of Ukraine) candidate Viktor Yanukovych.
Early in 2005, Ukrainian Kanal 5 aired an apparently tapped telephone conversation in which Pavlovsky's name was mentioned. The tape linked him to the alleged dioxin poisoning of then-president Viktor Yushchenko. Pavlovsky categorically denied any connection to the poisoning.[4]