matheona's video: Carpathian Ruthenia Ruthenians speaks own Ruthenian language have own culture

Ukraine's Security Service has officially accused a leader of the minority Carpathian Ruthenians of threatening Ukraine's territorial integrity. Dimitriy Sidor, the chairman of the Association of Carpathian-Ruthenians, could reportedly face a three-year jail sentence if found guilty. RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports that on October 25 the Association of the Carpathian-Ruthenians held its second congress in the town of Mukhachev, where they called for establishing Carpathian-Ruthenian statehood.Sydor is also notable as a politician. He is a member of Zakarpattia Oblast Council since 2002. He is the chairman of the Soym of Subcarpathian Rusins (Congress of Carpathian Ruthenians, Сойм підкарпатських русинів), an association of the Rusin organizations of Zakarpattia Oblast. One of the movement's goals is the autonomy of Subcarpathian Ruthenia within Ukraine. 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". Sydor denied the accusation saying that he speaks for the autonomy within Ukraine, rather than for a separate state. Some local media claim that Sydor's movement is subsidized from Russia. In 2012 he was convicted to three years in prison conditionally for separatism (encroachment on territorial integrity).According to internet publisher "Newsru", earlier in 2008 the Zakarpattia Rusyns appealed to Russia to recognize independence of Subcarpathian Ruthenia from Ukraine. Ruthenians are a Slavic nation group that speaks the Ruthenian language and have own culture different from another nations. They live mainly in the Carpathian Mountains of Ukraine, as well as in Slovakia and Poland.