Gleb Pavlovsky

Gleb Pavlovsky Olegovich (Russian Глеб Олегович Павловский; born March 5, 1951 in Odessa ) is a Russian political scientist.

Pawlowski studied from 1968 to 1973 History at the University of Odessa and later moved to Moscow. There he was temporarily active in the Soviet dissidents. In 1982, he was sentenced to prison for " anti-Soviet activity ", but known in the course of the criminal guilty and was instead sent into exile, from which he returned in December 1985. Pawlowski information about this part of his biography are disputed.

Together with Marat Gelman founded Pawlowski 1995, the organization Фонд эффективной политики ( Foundation for Effective Politics ), which referred to himself as " Institute of Public Opinion Research and campaign management " and quickly developed into a major player in establishing itself ends Russian internet scene. The Foundation for Effective Politics was instrumental in the development and implementation of various election campaigns in Russia. So it will be a great share in the victory of Boris Yeltsin attributed to the presidential campaign in 1996, and the election victory of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections of 2000 they will have contributed significantly. Pawlowski is also a significant contribution in the establishment of the system of guided democracy attributed in Russia. Pawlowski was at times the best known but also the most controversial people in the Russian media landscape. In Western media, he was repeatedly referred to as " the eminence grise of the Kremlin " or as " the most prominent of Russia Spin Doctor".

In the presidential elections in Ukraine in 2004 Pawlowski supported the candidate Viktor Yanukovych, he has always denied him a decided temporarily ascribed role in the dioxin poisoning of the subsequent election winner and President Viktor Yushchenko.

Between 2005 and 2009 Pawlowski moderated the program Большая политика (Grand Politics ) on the TV channel NTV.

Pawlowski asked in spring 2011 open a further term of then President Dmitry Medvedev a, he then lost his status as an advisor of the Russian presidential administration. Shortly thereafter, he announced the dissolution of the Foundation for Effective Politics. Since then, Pawlowski expressed increasingly negative about Putin and the policies of the Russian government in public.