Dimitry Sydor

Dmytro Dmytrovych Sydor (Ukrainian: Дмитро Дмитрович Сидор, also known as Pop Sydor (Ukrainian: піп Сидір), born March 29, 1955, in Mukachevo Raion) is a Rusyn archpriest of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Uzhhorod.

[1] After that he worked at a Soviet military company in Mukachevo "Mukachevpribor" that was supplying equipment for nuclear submarines.

[2] In 2008 he was accused of separatist activities and questioned by the Security Service of Ukraine as part of the criminal investigations of the "threat to state integrity".

[4][5] In 2012 he was convicted to three years in prison conditionally for separatism (encroachment on territorial integrity).

[6] According to internet publisher "Newsru", earlier in 2008 the Zakarpattia Rusyns appealed to Russia to recognize independence of Subcarpathian Ruthenia from Ukraine.