Alla Yaroshinskaya

Alla Yaroshinskaya, Ph.D., writer, independent expert on nuclear security, former Deputy of Parliament and Advisor to President Boris Yeltsin. She was graduated Kiev State University (Ukraine) and Moscow State Academy under Russian President (Russia).The author and co-author of two dozens books and many articles in scientific magazines and the mass media. Her book on Chernobyl was published in different languages. She is also originator, editor-in-chief and co-author of the Nuclear Encyclopedia, the first of its kind in the world, which shows the true nature of nuclear problems. She has been a member of Russian delegations to the United Nations for negotiating an extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to the UN Women's Conference (1995). In 1998, she received an international Award Alternative Nobel Prize (1992, Sweden) and women's award as one of "100 heroines of the 20th century" (1998, USA).