Aleksandr Kapto

Aleksandr Kapto
Kapto in 2014
Born
Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto

(1933-04-14)14 April 1933
Vyshchetarasivka, Tomakivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died19 April 2020(2020-04-19) (aged 87)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)Diplomat, author

Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto (Russian: Александр Семёнович Капто; 14 April 1933 – 19 April 2020) was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian sociologist, political scientist, diplomat, journalist and politician. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. In 2008 he was head of the UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).[1]

  1. ^ Progress Report 2006, Activities of the UNESCO Chair in Social Sciences, Institute of Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences