 In 1991, Pavel Gusev stated that “... editors-in-chief and leaders of the press will always be selected for political or administrative reasons”.Viktor Shenderovich wrote about Pavel Gusev that his evolution was from a member of Komsomol to Gorbachev’s perestrojka wave and to a democrat-supporter of Yeltsin, then to a patriot from the Congress of Russian communities, a loyal supporter of the Moscow mayor Luzhkov and, finally, an obedient servant of Putin.Gusev is currently a member of Russia's "Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights", where he is chairman of the "Commission on Supporting Mass Media as the Basis of Civil Society".