Paul Goble
Staunton, January 7 – Only weeks after Russia’s consul general in Lviv called him the "Moses” of his people, Dmitry Sidor, an Uzhgorod priest loyal to Moscow who heads the Rusin movement in Transcarpathia, declared this week that "after many years” of using only political tactics, the Rusins are now prepared to "defend their freedom with arms in their hands.”
How seriously this threat should be taken is an open question. On the one hand, the Rusins have made similar threats before, most notably at the end of 2008. And on the other, an actual revolt as opposed to the threat of one would complicate Russian-Ukrainian relations and threaten Moscow’s oil and gas exports to Europe, much of which flows via Transcarpathia.
But however that may be, Sidor’s remark, especially coming ...
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