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FEATURED ARTICLES, NEWS, AND DOCUMENTS
(updated October 3, 2008)

NEWS

• ADDED News Archive for September 2008



• Carpatho-Rusyn Panel, Meeting at AAASS Convention, Philadelphia, November 20-21, 2008
  (Rusyn International Media Center, 30 September 2008)



• How the Rusyns Could Save Civilization
  (Pittsburgh City Paper, 25 September 2008)



• Marine Sergeant Michael Strank Awarded Certificate of US Citizenship; Carpatho-Rusyn Society Recognizes Award and Calls Attention to Strank’s Carpatho-Rusyn Ethnicity
  (Carpatho-Rusyn Society, 20 August 2008)



• Heritage celebrated: Byzantine Catholics recall past
  (Times Leader, 18 August 2008)



• Floods ravage Slovak countryside
  (Slovak Spectator, 4 August 2008)



• Timkovič brothers expelled from Prešov monastery by district court decree
  (www.geocities.com/timkovic, 2 August 2008)



• Unheralded WWII battle raged 50 days
  (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 27 July 2008)



• Carpatho-Rusyn descendants strive to keep culture alive
  (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 24 July 2008)



• Украина против Прикарпатской Руси [TEXT] / [VIDEO]
  [Ukraine against Subcarpathian Rus’]
  (Vesti nedeli, 8 June 2008)



• World Congress Chairman In Washington, D.C.
  (Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center, 5 June 2008)



• Ukraine’s Procrastination Provokes Extremism
  (Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center, 3 June 2008)



• Rooted in Wood: Slovakia’s Greek Catholic Heritage
  (One, May 2008)



• Дискримінація автохтонoв
  [Discrimination against the autochthonous peoples.]
  Information from the point of view of the of Rusyn separatist demonstrators gathered in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on 12 March.
  (avtohtonkarpat.narod.ru, 16 March 2008)



• Magyar- és ruszinellenes tüntetés volt Ungváron
  A Hungarian television news report on the anti-Hungarian and anti-separatist demonstrations held in Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on 12 March.
  (Duna Televízió, 12 March 2008)



• World Congress of Rusyns and Rusyn Community Express Solidarity with Jewish Community of Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Oblast in Wake of Vandalism of Uzhhorod Chief Rabbi’s Home



• Response of the World Congress of Rusyns to “On the 62nd Anniversary . . . of the Act of Annexation” Declaration of Soim of Subcarpathian Rusyns (PDF, 21 January 2008)



• Заклик о поміч для "Кычеры" / Zaklyk o pomicz dla "Kyczery"
  [A call for aid to the ensemble 'Kyczera']
  (lemkowyna.net, 8 November 2007)



• Letter of Jerzy Starzynski, director of Lemko folk song and dance ensemble 'Kyczera', to Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration concerning funding cuts threatening ensemble's existence (25 October 2007; in Polish) 202KB PDF



• Letter of Paul R. Magocsi to Oleh Protsyk, European Centre for Minority Issues, concerning modern political declarations of Rusyns in Ukraine (with supporting documentation) 2.32MB PDF



• Letter of Rusyn Greek Catholics of Uzhhorod, Zakarpatska Oblast of Ukraine to Pope Benedict XVI



• ADDED Materials from the IX World Congress of Rusyns, Sighet, Romania, 21-24 June 2007



• Rusyns Recognized as Indigenous Nationality of the Transcarpathian Oblast of Ukraine
  (RIMC press release, 31 May 2007)



• Русинів визнали на рівні Закарпаття
  [Rusyns have been recognized within Zakarpattia]
  (uzhgorod.net.ua, 7 March 2007)



• ADDED Book: Sistema khoziaistvovaniia v Zakarpatskoi oblasti v 1991-2004 godakh [The System of Economic Management in the Transcarpathian oblast in 1991-2004]



• Ukraine: Transcarpathian Rusyns Want Official Recognition
  (RFE/RL, 22 September 2006)



• The Rusyn wooden church in Komancza/Komancha, Poland, was destroyed by fire on 13 September 2006:
  Their tears could not extinguish the wooden church [PDF]
  Komitet Odbudowy Cerkwi w Komańczy apeluje o wsparcie i pomoc w odbudowie cerkwi
  Dzień po pożarze
  Appeal for Help in Komancha [PDF]
  Cerkiew w Komańczy zostanie odbudowana
  13 września 2006 roku historia zatoczyło koło - około godziny 19-tej spłonęła cerkiew w Komańczy.
  Spłonęła zabytkowa cerkiew w Komańczy
  
  
• Arguments for Recognizing the Nationality of the Indigenous Subcarpathian Rusyn People in Ukraine (16 March 2005)



• Letter of the Regional Parliament (Soim) of Subcarpathian Rusyns (Uzhhorod, Ukraine) to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe regarding human rights abuses against Rusyns (15 May 2004)



• Letter of Subcarpathian Rusyn organizations in Ukraine to the President of Ukraine regarding human rights abuses against Rusyns (19 April 2004)



• Заява Державного комітету України у справах національностей та міграції до доповіді Державного Департаменту США по Україні за 2003 рік
  (Narodnyi ohliadach, 3 March 2004)
  The Ukrainian government’s official response to the mention of the “Rusyn question” in the U.S. State Department’s report on human rights in Ukraine.



• The Rusyn Question in Ukraine
  (RIMC, 1 March 2004)

FEATURE ARTICLES

• The Rusyn Question in Ukraine: Sorting Out Fact from Fiction by Taras Kuzio 61K PDF



• Ukraine Continues Hard-line Policy Toward Rusyns (Rusyn International Media Center, 25 October 2004) 359K PDF



• Rusyn Press and Rusyn Culture by bp@rusynmedia.org



• Full Frontal Uzhorod: Ivan Petrovcij and the Rusyns’ Long-lost Dirty Words by bp@rusynmedia.org



• Results of the 2002 Census of Population in Poland Present Lemkos (and other Minorities) With a Challenge by Bogdan Horbal



• How Many Rusyns Live in Transcarpathia? by Bogdan Horbal

DOCUMENTS

• Letter of Jerzy Starzynski, director of Lemko folk song and dance ensemble 'Kyczera', to Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration concerning funding cuts threatening ensemble's existence (25 October 2007; in Polish) 202KB PDF



• Резолуція зо засіданя Світовой Рады Русинів (СРР) 23. фебруара 2007 у румуньскім Сіґетї [Resolution from the meeting of the World Council of Rusyns, 23 February 2007 in Sighet, Romania] 177K PDF



• Online book: Rushchak M., Padiak V., Sistema khoziaistvovaniia v Zakarpatskoi oblasti v 1991-2004 godakh [The System of Economic Management in the Transcarpathian oblast in 1991-2004] (Uzhhorod: Izdat. V. Padiaka, 2004) 373K PDF



• Periodical Archive: Podkarpats'ka Rus' (Uzhhorod, October 2005-present)



• Periodical Archive: Podkarpats'kyi Rusyn (Uzhhorod, October 2005-present)



• Arguments for Recognizing the Nationality of the Indigenous Subcarpathian Rusyn People in Ukraine (16 March 2005) 164K PDF



• Letter of the Regional Parliament (Soim) of Subcarpathian Rusyns (Uzhhorod, Ukraine) to Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe regarding human rights abuses against Rusyns (15 May 2004) - 68K PDF



• Letter of Subcarpathian Rusyn organizations in Ukraine to the President of Ukraine regarding human rights abuses against Rusyns (19 April 2004) - 56K PDF



• "Carpatho-Rusyns" (an overview, in English, Rusyn, Polish, Slovak, etc.)

BOOKS

• Ethnic Relations in Eastern Europe: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography (2001)
• Odyn iz shistdesiaty: spohady na tli iuvileinoho roku (2001)
• Nikola the Outlaw (2001)
• Wooden Churches of the Carpathians: a Comparative Study (2001)
• Entsiklopediia Podkarpatskoi Rusi (2001)
• Das Rusinische der Ostslowakei im Kontext seiner Nachbarsprachen (2001)
• Die Russophilen in Galizien: Ukrainische Konservative zwischen Osterreich und Russland, 1848-1915 (2001)