Russian President Vladimir Putin's former adviser Gleb Pavlovsky died in Moscow on Monday after a serious illness at the age of 71, local media reported. Once an influential figure in Russian politics, Pavlovsky served as a political adviser to President Vladimir Putin but later became a critic of the Kremlin.
Pavlovsky was born in the Ukrainian city of Odesa and was a dissident during the Soviet era. He served a sentence of internal exile in the northern republic of Komi 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. Pavlovsky worked as a Kremlin advisor and was a guiding figure during Putin's first two terms as president, from 2000 to 2008, and was primarily known for his role as a spin doctor and "political technologist." He was instrumental in the development of Russia's "managed democracy" that marginalized, exiled, or jailed Putin's rivals. However, he was dismissed after criticizing Putin and then-President Dmitry Medvedev's "castling" political manoeuvre, which allowed Putin who had served for a term as prime minister to run for a third term as president. Pavlovsky then became a critic of the Kremlin and became known as one of the most insightful opponents of the administration.
Source: DW
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It seems possible that this is another one of Putin's critics getting knocked off, it is also possible that Pavlovsky just died due to his old age.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin's former adviser Gleb Pavlovsky died in Moscow on Monday after a serious illness at the age of 71, local media reported. Once an influential figure in Russian politics, Pavlovsky served as a political adviser to President Vladimir Putin but later became a critic of the Kremlin.
Pavlovsky was born in the Ukrainian city of Odesa and was a dissident during the Soviet era. He served a sentence of internal exile in the northern republic of Komi 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. Pavlovsky worked as a Kremlin advisor and was a guiding figure during Putin's first two terms as president, from 2000 to 2008, and was primarily known for his role as a spin doctor and "political technologist." He was instrumental in the development of Russia's "managed democracy" that marginalized, exiled, or jailed Putin's rivals. However, he was dismissed after criticizing Putin and then-President Dmitry Medvedev's "castling" political manoeuvre, which allowed Putin who had served for a term as prime minister to run for a third term as president. Pavlovsky then became a critic of the Kremlin and became known as one of the most insightful opponents of the administration.
Source: DW
Assessment
It seems possible that this is another one of Putin's critics getting knocked off, it is also possible that Pavlovsky just died due to his old age.