Ihor Ilyushyn is a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 historian and professor of the Kiev Slavonic University.

Ilyushyn is a graduate of the University of Kiev (1988) and doctor of historical sciences (2003). Since 2004, he directs the Department of International Relations in Kiev Slavonic University. In the period 1997-2005 he was a member of the working group at the Ukrainian Government Commission for examination and evaluation of the activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organization which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine . The OUN accepted violence as an acceptable tool in the fight against foreign and domestic enemies particularly Poland and Russia...

 and Ukrainian Insurgent Army. In the period 2002-2003 was a member of a team of experts of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine, for conducting additional research of Massacres of Poles in Volhynia

Massacres of Poles in Volhynia

The Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were part of an ethnic cleansing operation carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army West in the Nazi occupied regions of the Eastern Galicia , and UPA North in Volhynia , beginning in March 1943 and lasting until the end of...

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Ilyushyn's works were published in Austria

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, Belarus

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, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, France

France

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, Poland

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, Russia

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, Slovakia

Slovakia

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, Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, and USA.