Dmytro Sydor

Dmytro (Dimitriy) Dmytrovych Sydor (Ukrainian: Дмитро (Димитрій) Дмитрович Сидор, born March 29, 1955) is a Rusyn priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) (mitrophoric protoiereus of the Cathedral of the Holy Cross Erection, Mukachevo eparchy of the UOC(MP) ) and a politician in Ukraine, the chairman of the Soym of Subcarpathian Rusyns (Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians, Сойм підкарпатських русинів), an association of Rusyn organizations of Zakarpattia Oblast, an instrumental in the movement for the creation of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia (Подкарпатська Русь) autonomy.^[1]

In 2008 he was accused of separatist activities and questioned by the Ukrainian State security as part of the criminal investigations of the "threat to state integrity". Sydor denied the accusation saying that he speaks for the autonomy within Ukraine, rather than for a separate state. ^[2] Ukrainian media claims that the movement is subsidized from Russia.

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2. ^ http://ua.glavred.info/archive/2008/10/30/092718-16.html

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