Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo (30 July 1960 – 30 October 2010) was an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ambassador

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 of the Argentine Republic to the Russian Federation.

The son of Leopoldo Bravo

Leopoldo Bravo

Leopoldo Bravo was an Argentine politician and diplomat. A Senator and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province, where he came to be regarded as a caudillo .-Career:...

, a former Ambassador of Argentina to the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 and powerful San Juan Province

San Juan Province (Argentina)

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 political figure, Bravo served in the Provincial Legislature on his father's Partido Bloquista ticket from 1987 to 1993, and in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies

Argentine Chamber of Deputies

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 from 1995 to 1999. He returned to the San Juan Legislature, and in 2002, was named Financial Attaché

Attaché

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 to the Argentine Embassy in Moscow

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Bravo was designated Ambassador to the Russian Federation on September 12, 2006 (a post his father had held during Juan Perón

Juan Perón

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's last presidency, in 1973-74). He served concomitantly as Ambassador to Ukraine

Ukraine

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 from 2007, and from 2008, in Armenia

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, Kazakhstan

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, Kirgizstan, and Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

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He died of cancer on 30 October 2010 at the age of 50; he was survived by his wife, Laura Adámoli, and their four children.