Yuri Nikolayevich Zhukov was a Russian historian and researcher at the Institute of Russian History at the Russian Academy of Sciences. Zhukov published several books that cover Joseph Stalin, such as Renaissance of Stalin and Handbook of a Stalinist.
Yuri Viktorovich Ryazanov is a Russian businessman and politician. He is a member of the Federal Council of the all-Russian political party Party of Action and the Vice President of Novoe Sodruzhestvo. He is a member of the board of directors of Rostselmash, Empils and Buhler Industries.
Yuriko Saito is a professor emeritus of philosophy at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Saito worked at the faculty at RISD from 1981 to 2018 and was the head of the Special Studies department from 1989 to 1992. Saito was born in raised in Sapporo, Japan and attended International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison for graduate school and received a PhD in Philosophy with a minor in Japanese literature in 1983. Saito received the RISD Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1999. She serves on the editorial board for Environmental Aesthetics, is Editor of the online journal Contemporary Aesthetics, is an editorial consultant for The British Journal of Aesthetics, and was a trustee member for the American Society for Aesthetics. She has many publications in the fields of everyday aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, and Japanese aesthetics, and has written and reviewed numerous book chapters. A relevant book publication, Everyday Aesthetics was released in 2008 by Oxford University Press, followed by Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making, which earned her the Outstanding Mongraph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics in 2018. She has presented at University of Houston, Babson College, Baruch College, University of Montana at Missoula, Hampshire College in Massachusetts, University of Texas at Austin, as well as at various locations in the U.S., Japan, and Finland. In 2020 she was the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the BSA Annual Conference. Saito currently resides in Rhode Island with her family.
Yuriy Volodymyrovych Makarov is a Ukrainian journalist, TV presenter, documentarian, writer of Russian origin. Until 2009, he was the editor-in-chief, of the magazine "The Ukrainian Week"; in 2017–2019, Makarov was a member of the board of Suspilne, since 2019, he has been the editor-in-chief of Suspilne. Since 2019, he has been the Chairman of the Taras Shevchenko National Award Committee of Ukraine. Honored Journalist of Ukraine. Member of PEN Ukraine.
Yuriy Mykhaylovych Mushketyk was a Ukrainian novelist and journalist who earned the title of Hero of Ukraine in 2009. In his thirty years of writing, he created multiple plays, several novels, and collections of short stories in addition to publishing over 10 books.
