Rusyns live along the southern and northern slopes of the north-central ranges of the Carpathian Mountains in central and eastern Europe. Today, between 800,000 and 1,000,000 Rusyns inhabit several ...

Growing up, Lýdia Budayová’s parents would only tell her stories and fairy tales in Slovak. In fact, she does not remember any books in Rusyn, though it was the language spoken in their household. Her ...

To John Righetti, there are few if any more misunderstood ethnic groups than the Carpatho-Rusyns. The group has a sizeable presence in Europe and North America, but use the term in front of almost ...

With continuing upheavals in Eastern Europe, most Americans are identifying 1990 as the year Lithuania rebelled and the two Germanies reunited. Few realize, however, that in northeastern ...

A typical Rusyn house in the Presov region, northeastern Slovakia (Dr. Michele Parvensky) PRAGUE, September 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Last week the Transcarpathian Oblast Council appealed to Ukraine's ...

This study discusses the basic characteristics of the national revival that has taken place among the Rusyns of East-Central Europe since the mid-1980s. The author accepts the view of Ernest Gellner ...