Stanislav Ovcharenko was born in 1950 in Zaporozhye, Ukraine. He graduated from Dnepropetrovsk University in 1977 with a degree in foreign languages, and from Kiev University in 1983 with a degree in philosophy. In recent years, he has been giving lectures on problems of world culture and ethnic psychology, focusing on intercultural dialogue. Since 2001, he has actively participated in the fight against the post-communist oligarchic regime, including involvement in the events on the Kiev Maidan, both as a journalist and as the head of the online publication "Light and Shadows".Living in post-Soviet Ukraine, he found himself in the status of an included internal observer; akin to the field conditions of an experimental volcanologist.The experiment to exit the regime of a closed totalitarian society was carried out by life itself, and it was very convenient to observe inside. He lived in such a way as to understand and describe historical life at its turning point; this was facilitated by his personal disinterest in the ugly oligarchic forms of life, that emerged on the ruins of a closed social system.Stanislav is married and he has two sons and one granddaughter.