Dmytro Dmytrovych Sydor (Ukrainian: Дмитро Дмитрович Сидор, born March 29, 1955) is a Rusyn archpriest of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Uzhhorod. The cathedral belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
Sydor is also notable as a politician. He is the chairman of the Soym of Subcarpathian Rusyns (Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians, Сойм підкарпатських русинів), an association of the Rusyn organizations of Zakarpattia Oblast. One of the movement's goals is the autonomy of Subcarpathian Ruthenia within the Ukraine.[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]
Some Ukrainian media claim that Sydor's movement is subsidized from Russia.