The Rusyns of Transcarpathia decided to get from Kiev recognition of the autonomy

Congress Rusyn organizations in Transcarpathia took notice of intention to seek the Ukrainian authorities recognition of Rusyn nationality and autonomy of Subcarpathian Rus ' through dialogue with Kiev.
"The most important task of the coordinating Council is to engage and increase dialogue with Kyiv authorities to address the issue of possible recognition results of the referenda that took place in 1991 in Transcarpathia, in which about 80% of the population in fact voted for the provision of the region's Autonomous status ", - reported in circulation, reports a news Agency. Rusyns - group of the East Slavic people living in the Carpathians, Eastern Slovakia, Serbian Vojvodina, South-Eastern Poland, Hungary and North-Western Romania. In modern encyclopedic editions of Rusyns to include Ukrainians, as well as to independent ethnic group. Part themselves Rusyns and several Rusyn organizations consider themselves a separate nation, Part - Ukrainians. In the USSR, the Russians were seen as ethnic group of Ukrainians. Transcarpathia later than all other regions became part of the Ukraine (not counting the already ceased to be the Ukrainian Crimea). Until 1918 the region of Hungary, in the period between the two world wars - Part of Czechoslovakia, then Hungary. Red army entered in Transcarpathia in 1944, and finally the transfer of the lands of the Ukraine was only issued in 1946) national composition of Transcarpathia was always extremely colorful, despite the fact that, according to the last census (2001), Ukrainians accounted for 79% of the population. There is a large Hungarian Diaspora (12%), Slovaks, Rusyns Have who believe that their official number (0, 8%) are lower by at least an order of magnitude. The leader of the Rusyn movement priest Dimitry Sidor for many years, striving to create autonomy in Transcarpathia. In 2008, he was prosecuted under the criminal code for separatism, and already in 2012, when President Yanukovych, he was sentenced to probation. In the last month of summer last year in Transcarpathia in the military unit N A were deployed 1, 5 Ukrainian military. This relocation was then linked to increased risk of popular unrest in the Ukrainian province. First of Budapest Congress passed the Ruthenian and Hungarian communities in the Carpathian mountains. The Congress adopted an appeal to Russia, the EU, Hungary, the United Nations and the United States with the requirement to have an impact on Ukraine to recognize the results of the referendum on the autonomy of the Carpathians, which took place in 1991.


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