What is Aleksandr Kapto?
[[File:Alexander Kapto foto.jpg|thumb|Aleksandr Kapto in 2014]] '''Aleksandr Semenovich Kapto''' (April 14, 1933 – April 19, 2020) was a [[Russia]]n-[[Ukraine|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).<ref>[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20151221082111/http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=55099&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Progress Report 2006, Activities of the UNESCO Chair in Social Sciences, Institute of Social and Political Research, Russian Academy of Sciences]</ref> He was born in [[Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union|USSR]]. He was a Soviet Ambassador to [[Cuba]] from 1985 to 1990, and the last Soviet and first Russian [[List of ambassadors of Russia to North Korea|Ambassador to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea]]. ==Related pages== *[[List of sociologists from Europe]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kapto, Aleksandr}} [[Category:Russian politicians]] [[Category:Russian journalists]] [[Category:Russian sociologists]] [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Ambassadors of Russia]] [[Category:Russian political scientists]] [[Category:People from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]] {{bio-stub}}