Viktor Sviatoslavovych Idzio () is a Ukrainian historian and director of the Institute for Eastern Europe. Idzio was born in Ivano-Frankivsk on November 26, 1960. Notability In the past 15 years, he has published over 500 articles and 21 monographs dealing with controversial areas of Ukrainian history. Being based in Moscow during the fall of the Soviet Union allowed him to access materials in the archives of the KGB, GPU and other organisations that were formally closed or which had restricted access. Idzio's publications shine light on previously unknown or undocumented aspects of the activities of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Idzio is thought to be one of the experts in Ukrainian history of the 9th-13th century, early Slavic culture, Celtic culture on Ukrainian territory, that the concept of the three brotherly Slavic tribes are a myth perpetrated by Soviet historians, that the Galician-Volynian State was also a myth of Soviet scholars which was much vaster than originally thought. Idzio search the archives of Moscow for the huge amount of materials taken out of Ukraine dealing with aspects of Ukrainian history. Other topics where he has produced monographs include such topics as "The Ukrainian diaspora in Russia", Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Lesia Ukrainka, Hryhory Skovoroda, the development of religious thought in Ukraine. Idzio has a Ukrainian nationalistic view on Ukrainian history. He states that he has come to the conclusion that the Russian people are originally a Finno-Ugric tribe. Biography Idzio graduated in 1984 from the faculty of History of the Carpathian National University, a student of Volodymyr Hrabovetsky (School of M. Hrushevsky) 1984-85 Lieutenant in the Soviet Army. 1986-97 Inspector in the Ivano-Frankivsk oblast department of Education. 1987-1997 - teacher of History in Ivano-Frankivsk. 1988-1992 - teacher of History in Moscow. 1992-2002 - post graduate student in History at the Moscow State pedagogic University. 1997–defended his doctoral dissertation: "The role of the Celts in the formation of political, religious and cultural organizations of the Slavs on the territory of Ukraine". 1997-2002–Prorector of academic-organization at the Moscow State Pedagogical University. 1998 - professor of the Moscow state pedagogical University. 1992 - one of the founding members of the Ukrainian University in Moscow. 1995 - founder and first president of the Ukrainian Historical Club in Moscow. 1995 - main editor of the Ukrainian Historic Almanac in Russia 1996-1997 - main editor of The Ukrainian Historic Newspaper in