(en) Petr Getsko I

The question of granting Ruthenian people the status of subject of international law is long overdue. Given that Ruthenians have no maternal state, this issue has taken on special urgency.
Indeed, in abstracted form the Ruthenian movement can be reduced to what in particular does it mean granting them the status of subject of international law (which they have lost) in the whole of the Carpathian region.

Movements (conflicts) to change the status often take place peacefully, when none of the parties declares its intention to use physical violence. There is no reason to focus exclusively on military insurrection, as the main script for the third phase, there is no reason to believe that the Subcarpathian region is very close to the third phase.

Certainly, the status of the subject of law in relation to Ruthenian ethnicity would have created a qualitatively new configuration of the Parties to resolve conflicts in Central Europe, and bring missing logical connections to the substance of discussions...

It was the loss of the status of the subject of law in 1944 by Ruthenian ethnic group, that led to the fact that today many of the decisions of the remaining players that have this status of the subject of law, their mutual (or group) understanding of their geo-political vision of the world, and the tools themselves, by which their declared goals are achieved, are in conflict with the changing status of Subcarpathian Ruthenians, their all the more palpable desire to regain their lost status of a subject of international law.

Therefore, it would be insufficient to consider the process of regaining such a status only in terms of the Ukrainian-Ruthenian relationship, there is a need to consider this problem on a much broader scale.

Obviously, any attempt of persecution of the Ruthenian people has provoked opposition. Another thing is that the current status of the Ukrainian government in Subcarpathian Ruthenia is unlikely to persist for a long time, therefore, in order to save their face, Russia, U.S., EU ... will have to not only recognize the legitimacy of the transition to the restored statehood in the territory of the Ruthenians to the South of the Carpathians - the Republic of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, but also to recognize the new leaders of Subcarpathian Ruthenia. We should observe a very interesting lesson in democratic flexibility.

There took place three international Ruthenian Congresses, there is a government of RSR, there is an unresolved Ruthenian question, to decide on which without assigning Ruthenians status of a subject of international law is practically impossible. During the transition period, that right could be assigned to the authorized representatives of the four structures, such as two representatives from each structure.
Over 2 years have passed since the promulgation of restoration of the statehood of the Republic of Subcarpathian Ruthenia; Ruthenians have gone through two important steps:
- Implementation of a second, parallel to the Ukrainian statehood and
- A second, parallel to the Ukrainian, Subcarpathian Ruthenian governance.
Appropriation of the subject of international law is the third step towards addressing the Ruthenian question