Vladimir Valerianovich Pribylovsky (russian: Влади́мир Валериа́нович Прибыло́вский, 6 March 195613 January 2016) was a Soviet and Russian

political scientist Political science is the science, scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of politics, political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated c ...

, historian, journalist, human rights activist, and author of internet database Anticompromat.org on biographies of Russian politicians. He also authored more than 40 books.

Biography

Pribylovsky graduated from the Department of Medieval History of

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

in 1981 specializing in

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

studies, and published several articles on early Byzantine history. In the 1980s he was persecuted by Soviet authorities for spreading banned literature. Since 1993 he was the president of the ''Panorama'' Information and Research Center think tank. From November 2005 he operated the Russian-language websit
Anticompromat.org
which is essentially a collection of biographies of Russian politicians compiled and partially written by Pribylovsky from a variety of published sources. The site was included in the

Federal List of Extremist Materials Federal List of Extremist Materials (russian: Федеральный список экстремистских материалов, ''Federal'nyy spisok ekstremistskikh matyerialov'') is a list of works that are banned in Russian Federation, prim ...

. On 31 March, after being shortly closed, the website moved to a Californian hosting. Together with Yury Felshtinsky, Pribylovsky co-authored ''The Operation Successor'', a book about

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...

's rise to power. Later versions were published as ''The Age of Assassins'' and ''Corporation''. According to reviews, the book describes

KGB The KGB (russian: links=no, lit=Committee for State Security, Комитет государственной безопасности (КГБ), a=ru-KGB.ogg, p=kəmʲɪˈtʲet ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ, Komitet gosud ...

's system of corporate rule in Russia. His latest project was providing Russian language documents about

corruption in Russia Corruption is perceived as a significant problem in Russia, impacting various aspects of life, including the economy, business, public administration, law enforcement, healthcare, and education. The phenomenon of corruption is strongly establish ...

for international project
Kleptocracy Initiative
, including documents on registration of cooperative

Ozero Ozero (russian: О́зеро, lit. ''lake'') (full name: дачный потребительский кооператив «Озеро», Dacha consumer cooperative "Ozero") is a dacha cooperative associated with Vladimir Putin's inner circl ...

. On 13 January 2016, Pribylovsky was found dead in his Moscow apartment. His last book was "Around Putin". It was published after his death. The body of Pribylovsky, according to his will, was cremated. He was buried at the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow.Прощание с публицистом Владимиром Прибыловским пройдёт сегодня в Москве
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Эхо Москвы Echo of Moscow (russian: links=no, Эхо Москвы, translit=Ekho Moskvy) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow. It broadcast in many Russian cities, some of the former Soviet republics (through partnerships with local ra ...

Books

*Guide to New Russian Political Parties and Organizations; Dec 1992 ; *National-patriots, Church and Putin. Parliamentary and Presidential Campaigns 1999–2000. By E.Mikhailovskya, V.Pribylovsky, A.Verkhovsky. 2001. *, 2004 * *

Yuri Felshtinsky Yuri Georgievich Felshtinsky (russian: Юрий Георгиевич Фельштинский, born 7 September 1956 in Moscow) is a Russian American historian. Felshtinsky has authored a number of books on Russian history, including ''The Bol ...

, Vladimir Pribylovsky, ''The Corporation. Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin'', , Encounter Books; February 25, 2009
description
*Vladimir Pribylovsky ''The Purge by Vladimir Putin. Who has been eliminated, and who remains''? (Russian), 2013, ,
Google books
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*''Around Putin. A biographical directory'' (Russian), Panorama, 2016, .
Online version of the book
*''Animal Farm 2'', an unofficial sequel to

Animal Farm ''Animal Farm'' is a beast fable, in the form of satirical allegorical novella, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. It tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to crea ...

Online version on Orwell's Site

References

External links

Anticompromat.org

Panorama.ru
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