Alla Kyrydon – Doctor Habilit. of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honoured Master of Sciences and Engineering of Ukraine. She is Director of the State Scientific Institution «Encyclopedic Publishing House» (Kyiv, Ukraine). Her research interests encompass issues such as Memory Studies,methodology of historical research, state-church relations, the history of international relations, Ukrainian-Polish relations, problems of identity in the context of globalization, history of Ukraine etc. She is author and co-author of more than 500 scientific publications (in Ukrainian, English, Polish, and Russian). She is the leader of the project «Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia». Scientific discipline – political science, history.