Dr. Oleksii Sinchenko studied Ukrainian Language and Literature at the Taras Shevchenko National University (Kyiv, Ukraine). Since 2009 he is Associate Professor at the Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. His previous books include Communication strategies in Theory of Literature: Author, Text, Reader (Kyiv, Logos, 2015), Authorities, Society, Citizen: Problems of Interaction in Modern Ukraine. An Analytical Report (Kyiv, IPIEND named after. I.F. Kuras, NATIONAL Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2013) - collective monography, Ukrainian Culture: The Evolution of Crisis Consciousness (Ternopil, Jura, 2013) - collective monography. Dr. Dmytro Stus studied philology at Kyiv State University. Since 2012 he is Chief Executive of the Taras Shevchenko National Museum. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of the Kyivska Rus literary-critical journal and head of the department of criticism and bibliography of the Suchasnist journal. Leonid Finberg studied in at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since 1997, he is chief-editor of the Dukh i Litera publishing house and since 2007 the director of the Centre for Studies of the Culture and History of East-European Jews of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.