Lidia Mikheeva (née Bayeshko) is an M.A. student of the Cultural and Visual Studies Programme at European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania. She has also studied sociology at the Belarus State University in Minsk. Her research fields cover sociology of religion, psychoanalysis, critical theory, and cultural studies. She is the co-author of The Encyclopaedia of Symbols (2007) and The Book of Sacral Knowledge (2008). Her work on international terrorism, fundamentalism, traditional religiosity, and religious relativism in the post-Soviet societies has been published in Russia and Ukraine.