(en) Alexander Rusyn I A regular, 17th in a row court hearing in Court of Appeal in Uzhgorod on September 30, 2011, with regard to the case number 499, "Ukraine v.s. the spiritual leader of the Ruthenians D. Sydor," was postponed due to non-attendance of the forensic linguistic examination experts for the fifth consecutive time. The court decided to oyer testimony of the expert of forensic linguistic examination using the IP-telephony (namely, "Skype").

All legalists are aware that the facts of legal significance could be obtained through testimony of the parties, third parties, their representatives questioned as witnesses, the testimony of witnesses, written (real) evidence, expert opinions, on condition that the said evidence was obtained without violation of the procedure established by law. At the trial, not all the facts of legal significance could be regarded as evidence, but only those that are directly defined in the law. Certain pre-statutory restriction in the use of evidence in resolving specific disputes in the law practice has traditionally been understood as the credibility of evidence. In this regard, there follows logical question: "Is there any mention in the law of obtaining evidence through the network, using the IP-telephony?

(en)  Alexander Rusin I

At the end of World War I, when the international community recognized the right of nations (or ethnic groups) to self-determination, Ruthenians to the south of the Carpathians (along with other enslaved peoples of Europe), having officially received such a right, became a subject of international law. At that time, Ruthenians, exercising their right to self-determination, on a voluntary basis acceded to the newly formed Czechoslovakia with special status.