Ivan Kuras

Ivan Fedorovych Kuras (October 3, 1939, in Nemyrivske — October 16, 2005, in Kyiv) was a Ukrainian scientist-political scientist, public and political figure, academician (from April 14, 1995) and vice-president of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, founder of the Institute of Political and Ethnonational Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and a member of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada.