On February 14, 2013, Senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences Albert Ivanovich Kuprin passed away. Albert Ivanovich was engaged in research on socio-political and cultural problems of North African countries.

A. I. Kuprin was born on November 28, 1941 in the village of Muravlyanka, Sarayevsky district, Ryazan region, to a family of employees. In 1968, he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University. Since 1969, he worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (later - RAS). In 1975, he defended his PhD thesis on " The expansion of French neo-colonialism in the education and training system of the Maghreb countries (60s)".

In 1980, A. I. Kuprin's monograph "France and the Maghreb Countries: Education and Training" was published. In the 1980s and 1990s, A. I. Kuprin worked in the Department of Scientific Information of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, devoting a lot of effort to studying the world's Oriental centers.

In the last years of his life, Albert Ivanovich worked on such issues as the role of information and telecommunications technologies in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and the human rights movement in Algeria, which became especially relevant in connection with the events of the "Arab Spring". In 2011, two monographs by A. I. Kuprin were published. The first one," Power and Opposition in the Maghreb Countries", considers the process of Islamism formation as a religious and political trend that poses a threat to the democratic development of North African countries.

A. I. Kuprin's latest article on the Arab diaspora in Argentina, published in 2011, is of great interest. It is distinguished by its scientific novelty and originality of development. In addition, in the last year of his life, A. I. Kuprin translated two historical works from English and German, which will be published in the publishing house "Tsentrpoligraf".

He was a talented and hardworking scholar who knew many foreign languages: Arabic, English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, etc. Albert Ivanovich was distinguished by exceptional kindness and responsiveness and was always ready to help. The staff of the Institute speak about him with great warmth and respect.

The bright memory of Albert Ivanovich will remain in our hearts for a long time.

FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF LI. KUPRIN

Expansion of French neocolonialism in Morocco's education and training system // Society, Elite and bureaucracy in the developing countries of the East, Moscow, 1974, pp. 382-398.

Formation of the national education system in developing countries. For example, the North African region // Some problems of the development of political thought in the East. M., 1976. S. 74-81.

France and the Maghreb countries (Education and training of personnel). Moscow: Nauka, 1980. 125 p. The same: Moscow, 2000.

Training of Asian-African intellectuals in the socialist strategy of neocolonialism // Intelligentsia and social progress in the developing countries of Asia and Africa. M " 1981. pp. 277-280.

Oriental studies centers of foreign countries. Part 2. Asia and Africa. Moscow, 1984. Author's note: Section: Ghana, p. 139; Kenya, p. 148-150; Tanzania, p. 150; South Africa, p. 153-155. The same: Moscow, 2000.

About the Orthodox Church in Japan // Moscow Patriarchate, Moscow, 1995, no 1/4, pp. 61-62.

Power and the Islamist opposition in Algeria / / The Middle East and Modernity. 2004.Vol. 22. pp. 154-177.

Power and the Islamist opposition in Morocco / / The Middle East and Modernity. 2004.Vol. 24. pp. 235-244.

Long Standoff: Islamist Movement against Republican Regimes / / Asia and Africa Today. 2004. No. 8. pp. 22-27.

Obshchie faktory obrazovaniya i razvitiya islamizma v stranakh Maghreb v 70-90-kh gody XX veka [General factors of education and development of Islamism in the Maghreb countries in the 70-90s of the XX century]. 2004.Vol. 22. pp. 49-68.

Informatsionnye i telekommunikatsionnye tekhnologii i tunisskoe obshchestvo [Information and telecommunication technologies and Tunisian society]. 2007. Issue 33, pp. 392-413.

Sotsioekonomicheskie i sotsiokul'turnye faktory razvitiya islamizma v Tunise [Socio-economic and socio-cultural factors in the development of Islamism in Tunisia]. Vostochny sotsium, Moscow, 2007, pp. 210-222.

Informatsionnye i telekommunikatsionnye tekhnologii i morokanskoe obshchestvo [Information and telecommunication technologies and the Moroccan society]. 2008. Issue 35, pp. 125-138.

Informatsionnye i telekommunikatsionnye tekhnologii v alzhirskom obshchestve [Information and telecommunication technologies in the Algerian Society]. 2008. Issue 36, pp. 83-95.

Trade union movement in Tunis in the context of globalization / / Middle East: challenges of the XXI century. Moscow, 2009. pp. 203-220.

Power and opposition in the Maghreb countries (the 70s of the XX century-the beginning of the first decade of the XXI century). Moscow, 2011. 183 p. (Scientific work of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Institutes of civil society and power in the Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), Moscow, 2011, 151 p. (Scientific work of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

Arab Diaspora in Argentina: the Immigration Process / / Foreign East and Modernity: Thirty years later (1980-2010), Moscow, 2011, pp. 146-160.

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