[2] He is a professor of journalism at the International University in Moscow[3] and a member of Russia's Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

[1] From 1971-1975, Gusev was a junior research associate at the Russian State Geological Prospecting University.

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.

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

[5] 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.