Belarus–Ukraine relations
Belarus–Ukraine relations (, "Byelaruska-ŭkrainskiya adnosiny", , "Ukrains'ko-Bilorus'ki vidnosyny", , "Belorussko-ukrainskiye otnosheniya") are foreign relations between Belarus and Ukraine. Both countries were successively ruled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Second Polish Republic, and ultimately, the Russian Empire. Prior to the 1991 breakup, both countries were part of the Soviet Union as the Belarusian SSR and Ukrainian SSR when they were the founding members of the United Nations in 1945. Being Slavic nations, both Belarus and Ukraine share closely related cultures and are predominantly inhabited by the East Slavic ethnic groups of Belarusians and Ukrainians respectively, along with a few Russians. Today, the two countries share an 891–km border.
Viktor Idzio
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.