# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-sakwa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:40:19.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-sakwa"
name: "Richard Sakwa"
slug: "richard-sakwa"
description: "Richard Sakwa is a British political scientist and a former professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent and an honorary professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University. He has written books about Russian, Central and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics."
tagline: "Historian of Russia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Sakwa%2C_IEIS_conference_%C2%ABRussia_and_the_EU_the_question_of_trust%C2%BB-101.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             2.320085929108485
  historical:           4.841292
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/richard.sakwa.9"
    handle:    "richard.sakwa.9"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "ريتشارد سكوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sakwa"
    title: "Richard Sakwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sakwa"
    title: "Richard Sakwa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B5%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AF"
    title: "リチャード・サクワ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Саква, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump