INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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
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.
