Gleb Pavlovsky
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on March 5, 1951) is a Russian
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national
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, political scientist (self-describing as "political technologist"). He was an adviser of the Presidential Administration of Russia
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until April 2011. During the Soviet times he was prosecuted as a dissident
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Pavlovsky is the president of the Foundation for Effective Politics
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Foundation for Effective Politics is a Moscow-based organization involved in significant parts of Russian public politics by creating numerous printed and online politics-related media. Some consider it to be a think tank .The founders of the FEP are Gleb Pavlovsky and Marat Gelman....
(FEP). In 1997 he helped in creation the Russian Journal
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, one of the oldest Russian internet media. Pavlovsky and FEP were organizers and financiers for many early information projects in the Runet
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, such as Lenta.Ru
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In 2005-2008 he hosted weekly news commentary TV program Real Politics at 10 p.m. on Saturdays on NTV
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Yushenko poisoning
Gleb Pavlovsky is considered to have been heavily involved with the highly controversial Ukrainian presidential election 2004, supporting the ultimately defeated (after allegations of fraud and an overturning of the result by the Supreme Court of UkraineSupreme Court of Ukraine
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) Viktor Yanukovych
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Early 2005 Ukrainian
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aired an apparently tapped telephone conversation that mentioned Pavlovsky's name. The tape linked him to the alleged dioxin poisoning of (then) president
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Viktor Yushchenko
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. However Pavlovsky categorically denied any connection of his to the poisoning.