Aleksandr Kapto

Aleksandr Semenovich Kapto (April 14, 1933 – April 19, 2020) was a Russian-Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, political scientist,  journalist and politician. In 2008, he became head of the UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).Progress Report 2006, Activities of the UNESCO Chair in Social Sciences, Institute of Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences He was born in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR. 

He was a Soviet Ambassador to Cuba from 1985 to 1990, and the last Soviet and first Russian Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

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List of sociologists from Europe

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