Aleksandr Kapto
Aleksandr Kapto | |
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Kapto in 2014 | |
| Russian Ambassador to North Korea | |
| In office 10 October 1990 – 24 January 1992 | |
| President | Mikhail Gorbachev Boris Yeltsin |
| Preceded by | Gennady Bartoshevich |
| Succeeded by | Yuri Fadeyev |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Aleksandr Semyonovich Kapto 14 April 1933 |
| Died | 19 April 2020 (aged 87) |
| Alma mater | Dnipropetrovsk University |
| Occupation | Diplomat, author |
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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).