Gleb O. Pavlovsky (Russia)

Pavlovskiy Gleb Olegovich

Date of birth: March 5, 1951, Place of birth: Odessa (USSR)

Current position
Director of the “Effective Policy Foundation”
Publisher and editor-in-chief of the “Russkiy Djurnal” (Russian Journal) magazine
Director of the “Russian Institute”
Professor of the “Higher School of Economics”

Education:
1968-1973 – Odessa State University
Speciality: history and political science

Employment history:
1973-1976 – history teacher in secondary schools in Odessa and Odessa region
1972-1976 – Odessa opposition press (samizdat) activist
1977-1982 - professional activists of the illegal democratic opposition in Moscow
1978-1980 – publisher and co-editor of the “Poiski” magazine (publication: Moscow, Samizdat/Paris, “Sintaksis”)
1982, April - was arrested on political charge, penitentiary imprisonment
1983-1986 – lived in exile in Komi Republic
1986-1994 – was given a permanency in the editorial office of “Vek XX i Mir” (XX century and the Wold)
1987-1992 - co-founder and vice-chairman of the “Fakt” (“Fact”) information service
1991-92 - vice-chairman of the “Kommersant” Publishing House
1989-93 – founder and director of the “Postfaktum” (post factum) information agency
1994-95 – publisher and editor of the trimensual “Predely Vlasti” (the extent of power)
1995-96 – founder and co-editor of the journalistic review “Sreda” (Wednesday)
1995-2005 - co-founder and director of the “Effective Policy Foundation”

Additional activities
Co-founder of social and political Clubs – Social Initiative Club, Democratic Perestroika, Moscow Tribune (1987-89)
Director of the “Civil Society” program of the Russia-American Foundation Cultural Initiative (1990-1992)
Foundation-member of the International Charitable Foundation “INTERLEGAL”(1990-1996)
Member of the editorial advisory board of the “Obshaya Gazeta” newspaper (1993-1994)
Consultant of the committee of directors of the “Ogonek” magazine (1994-95)

Author of numerous articles in unofficial (samizdat) and emigrant editions (1972-1982), national newspapers and weekly Soviet and Russian publications (from 1986) such as “Moskovskie Novosti”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”, “Kommersant”, “Kommersant-Vlast'”, “Exrert”, “Ogonek”, Vek XX i Mir”. Participant in many national TV programs.