High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexandr Semenovich Kapto (born April 14, 1933 in Upper Tarasovka Village, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine is a Russian and Ukrainian scientist, sociologist, political scientist and a diplomat, journalist, politician and statesman. He earned a philosophy degree in 1967 and his Ph.D. in 1985. As of 2008 he is head of the UNESCO International Board of the Institute of Socio-Political Research under the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).