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Aleksandr Kapto
Russian sociologist and diplomat (1933–2020)
Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto (Russian: Александр Семёнович Капто; April 14, 1933 – April 19, 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]