Aleksandr Vladimirovich Shchipkov (Russian: ????????? ???????????? ??????; born 3 August 1957, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian political scientist, sociologist of religion, specialist in church-state relationships, doctor of political science, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, editor-in-chief of RELIGARE.RU Internet magazine.
Advisor to the Chairperson of the Russian State Duma; member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the First Deputy Chairperson of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for relations with Society and the Media.