Pavel Gusev (journalist)

In April 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gusev was added to the European Union sanctions list "in response to the ongoing unjustified and unprovoked Russian military aggression against Ukraine and other actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine".

In 2018, Pavel Gusev was Vladimir Putin's confidant in the presidential elections in Russia.

In May 2016, he was included in the sanctions list of Ukraine by President Petro Poroshenko, he was denied entry to Ukraine.

In 1991, Pavel Gusev stated that “... editors-in-chief and leaders of the press will always be selected for political or administrative reasons”.

Gusev was involved in the Communist youth organization Komsomol from 1975 right up till 1983. He served as Second Secretary of Komsomol's Krasnopresnensky District branch in Moscow from 1975 till 1976, then First Secretary from 1976 till 1980. He worked in the international department of the Komsomol's Central Committee until 1983, when he joined Moskovskij Komsomolets in his present role as editor-in-chief.

He graduated from the Russian State Geological Prospecting University in 1971. From 1971-1975, Gusev was a junior research associate at the Russian State Geological Prospecting University. Then he earned a graduate degree in literature from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in 1985.

Pavel Nikolayevich Gusev (Russian: Павел Николаевич Гусев; born 4 April 1949, Moscow) is a Russian journalist and public figure. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Moscow daily newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets since 1983. He is a professor of journalism at the International University in Moscow and a member of Russia's Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.