Vladimir Pribylovsky

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Vladimir Valerianovich Pribylovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Валериа́нович Прибыло́вский, 6 March 1956 – 13 January 2016) was a Soviet and Russian political scientist,^[1] historian, journalist, human rights activist, and author of internet database Anticompromat.org on biographies of Russian politicians.^[2] He also authored more than 40 books.^[3]

Pribylovsky graduated from the Department of Medieval History of Moscow State University in 1981 specializing in Byzantine studies, and published several articles on early Byzantine history.^[4][5] 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.^[6] From November 2005 he operated the Russian-language website Anticompromat.org,^[7] which is essentially a collection of biographies of Russian politicians compiled and partially written by Pribylovsky from a variety of published sources.^[8] The site was included in the Federal List of Extremist Materials. 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's rise to power. Later versions were published as The Age of Assassins and Corporation.^[9][10][11] According to reviews, the book describes KGB's system of corporate rule in Russia.^[12]

His latest project was providing Russian language documents about corruption in Russia for international project "Kleptocracy Initiative", including documents on registration of cooperative Ozero.^[13]

On 13 January 2016, Pribylovsky was found dead in his Moscow apartment.^[14] His last book was "Around Putin".^[15] 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.^[16]

• Guide to New Russian Political Parties and Organizations; Dec 1992 ISBN 5-85895-012-4;
• National-patriots, Church and Putin. Parliamentary and Presidential Campaigns 1999–2000. By E.Mikhailovskya, V.Pribylovsky, A.Verkhovsky. 2001. ISBN 5-94420-001-4
• Pribylovsky, Vladimir; Felshtinsky, Yuri. The Operation Successor. A political portrait of Vladimir Putin (Text online) (in Russian)., 2004
• Felshtinsky, Yuri; Pribylovsky, Vladimir (2008). The Age of Assassins. The Rise and Rise of Vladimir Putin. London: Gibson Square Books. ISBN 978-1-906142-07-0.
• Yuri Felshtinsky, Vladimir Pribylovsky, The Corporation. Russia and the KGB in the Age of President Putin, ISBN 1-59403-246-7, Encounter Books; February 25, 2009, description.
• Vladimir Pribylovsky The Purge by Vladimir Putin. Who has been eliminated, and who remains? (Russian), 2013, ISBN 978-5-4438-0333-3, Google books and review.
• Around Putin. A biographical directory (Russian), Panorama, 2016, ISBN 5944200537. Online version of the book.
• Animal Farm 2, an unofficial sequel to Animal Farm. Online version on Orwell's Site

• Biography (in Russian)
• Anticompromat.org (in Russian)
• Panorama.ru (in Russian)