Russian political scientist and former Kremlin adviser Gleb Pavlovsky reportedly died on February 27, 2023 in Moscow. However, the cause of his death is yet to be revealed. Pavlovsky was 71.
Reporting his death, the English-language Moscow Times newspaper described Pavlovsky as “one of the most eloquent voices on the machinations and intrigue taking place in the halls of power.”
Born March 5, 1951, Pavlovsky studied history at Odessa University, graduating in 1973.
Pavlovsky had been a dissident in the Soviet era, serving a sentence of internal exile in the Komi Republic in the 1980s.
In 1995, Pavlovsky co-founded the Effective Policy Fund, a political strategy firm that worked on the presidential campaigns of Boris Yeltsin and his successor, Vladimir Putin.
Between 1996 and 2011, Pavlovsky worked with Vladimir Putin as a Kremlin adviser and political strategist in Putin’s initial tenure as president and prime minister.
However, he was sacked from the presidential administration in 2011, reportedly for backing then-President Dmitry Medvedev’s re-election over Putin’s return to the presidency. He subsequently became a critic of the Russian government.
From 2005 to 2008, Pavlovsky hosted the weekly television news commentary “Real Politics”, on NTV Russia. In 2012, he became editor-in-chief of Gefter.ru, a Russian-language blog.
Pavlovsky contributed opinion pieces to The Moscow Times from 2015-2019.