Last Updated on: 29th June 2023, 02:29 am
Gleb Pavlovsky Cause of Death
The former press adviser and former critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin has died at the age of 71 after a long illness in a Moscow hospice, according to his family.
Gleb Pavlovsky, a former Soviet dissident who worked for the Kremlin for 15 years before falling out of favor in 2011, died on Sunday, according to his family’s Telegram account. Pavlovsky helped Putin boost his strongman image.
“The relatives and friends of Gleb Pavlovsky express their deep gratitude to everyone who supported and helped all these months, went through everything with us, endured, understood and protected,” the statement said.
Pavlovsky’s illness remained a mystery, and there was no word on burial plans.
Born in the Black Sea port city of Odessa, Pavlovsky became involved in rebel activities as a university student.
He was charged with crimes, pleaded guilty, and testified against some of his comrades in 1982. Some dissidents never forgive him for this act.
After serving a three-year sentence in internal exile, Pavlovsky returned to Moscow and joined the pro-democracy movement sparked by Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he began working as a political advisor. In 1996 he helped Boris Yeltsin organize a successful re-election campaign.
Pavlovsky helped secure Putin’s first election in March 2000 after Yeltsin’s resignation.
He continued to consult with the Kremlin until 2011, when he was dismissed from his post as adviser to the President.
Beginning with condemning the Kremlin’s efforts to gain greater control over Russia’s political landscape, including cracking down on the opposition and independent media, Pavlovsky began to criticize them.
He also vehemently condemned Putin’s decision to send troops to Ukraine more than a year ago.
Pavlovsky was hailed by the English-language Moscow Times as “one of the most eloquent voices on the machinations and intrigues unfolding in the corridors of power”.
He is the latest in a line of prominent Russian officials and businessmen killed since the war began.
A senior defense official in the conflict with Ukraine named Marina Yankina, 58, was found dead earlier this month after falling from a window of an apartment building in St. Petersburg.
She is reported to have committed suicide.
Major General Vladimir Makarov, 72, of the Russian Interior Ministry also died outside Moscow this month.
Colonel Vadim Boiko, 44, deputy chief of the Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in Vladivostok, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds late last year; his death was also ruled a suicide.
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