Prominent Russian political researcher and former Kremlin adviser Gleb Pavlovsky has passed away at age 71 following a major health problem, his pal, Higher School of Economics teacher Simon Kordonsky, informed the Vedomosti company daily Monday.Pavlovsky had been a prominent figure in Russian politics in the first years of President Vladimir Putins rule, acting as Putins consultant and political technologist starting in 1996.

He contributed in the development of Russias managed democracy that saw Putins rivals marginalized, exiled or jailed.He likewise played the function of a spin doctor, hosting a weekly political section on state tv in the mid-2000s.

However he was sacked from the presidential administration in 2011, reportedly for backing then-President Dmitry Medvedevs re-election over Putins return to the presidency.From then on, he would be a singing critic of the Kremlins slide into authoritarianism and called among the most significant voices on the machinations and intrigue occurring in the halls of power.Following Putins invasion of Ukraine last February, Pavlovsky told the Financial Times: Putins used to being fortunate.

Thats very unsafe for a bettor, due to the fact that he begins thinking fate is on his side.

When you play Russian roulette, you feel that God is on your side until the shot rings out.

Pavlovsky contributed opinion pieces to The Moscow Times from 2015-2019.

Born in Odesa, Pavlovsky was a dissident during the Soviet period, and was sentenced to internal exile in the northern republic of Komi in the 1980s.

Alexei Chesnakov, a former Kremlin official who now heads the Center for Current Politics, a Kremlin-aligned think tank, said that Pavlovsky had actually been identified by an intellectual honesty that numerous took for pragmatism, a subtle understanding of mental phenomena that numerous took for Machiavellianism, and ultimately a present for really strategic political thinking which numerous interpreted as vague because they could not comprehend its horizons.

Undoubtedly, at the end of his life, he disliked much of what he wound up with.

However this does not lessen either the grandiosity of his original concept or his merit to history, Chesnakov added.Another previous Kremlin authorities who spoke on condition of anonymity informed The Moscow Times that Pavlovsky had been the first to participate in quality political analysis online at the dawn of the mass internet in Russia, however that he had actually inevitably experienced the mistake of backing Medvedev over Putin in 2011.