(en) ASR I Information newspaper "Nedіlya» № 28 (396) on 15-21 July 2011 posted an interview with Paul Robert Magochi, historian, professor of the University of Toronto and Chairman Emeritus of the World Council of Ruthenians, under the intriguing headline: "Do Ruthenians need a Congress?". The article was presented against the background of a bust in bronze, ready for installation in the home country of the Hero. Interviewer, for some reason, traditionally was (about us without us) a little-known journalist with clearly non-Ruthenian surname - Lilya Zalevskaya.The much respected professor to the fundamental and logical question, - What are the main functions and objectives of Ruthenian Congresses? - responded at length, muzzily, wordy, and very scantily. If we try to follow the thoughts of the professor in terms of content, (to evaporate the liquid and scrape off the dry residue), we will find in his response following objectives of the Congress:...

(cz) ČTK I  Moskva/Praha.

 Nové objevy o osudu Čechů a Slováků, kteří se v někdejším Sovětském svazu stali oběťmi politických represí, očekává český historik Mečislav Borák v příštích letech od přístupu k ruským státním archivů. Reklama. Ty dosud ruské úřady odmítají otevřít s poukazem na ochranu osobních údajů po dobu 75 let. Tato lhůta zakrátko uplyne v případě "velkého teroru" let 1937-1938, který si podle historiků v někdejším Sovětském svazu vyžádal skoro milion obětí.

"Úřady, které dříve odmítaly přístup do archivů jednoznačně z politických důvodů, nyní využívají tuto lhůtu jako výmluvu... Ale bez archivních spisů nelze osud daného člověka rozluštit. Nestačí znát rozsudek a vědět, že byl popraven, pokud není známo udání a další souvislosti," řekl Borák v Moskvě, kde ve čtvrtek večer přednášel o sovětských vězeňských táborech Gulag.

(en) George A. Dorsey

Volocz/Volovec, Bereg, Hungary, Sept. 1 - Only a country village. But as interesting as any community in the world to study what man had done and can do. Volocz is a great deal like Tennyson's little flower -- "if we knew it all, root and branch," we would know much that we do not know. I have seen enough to make me willing to lay a small wager on the Ruthenes. One never knows what is in any people or in any man until opportunity knocks. Opportunity knocked here; and the man was ready.It was all so unexpected. First, as we walked down into the village from the station we met a man I thought looked suspicious. I addressed him in English. Seemingly, he did not hear me, but walked on. I felt I must be right, so I went back and asked him to direct us to a restaurant.Without a word he led us to a little tavern kept by a genial Jew, and was about to leave us when I literally forced him to talk English. He knew little because he had not been in the United States long, bue he said he would take us to a man who could talk English.

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is prepared on the basis of materials of the international scientifically-practical conference «The Genocide and cultural ethnocide towards rusins of Karpatskaya Rus [the end of XIX - the beginning of XXI centuries]» which took place in Rostov-On-Don in December, 19th, 2008.
In the collection problem questions of history, including, modern history of the fourth east-Slavic ethnic group – rusins of Karpatskaya Rus – are considered. The reasons, character and scales of rusins’ tragedy within the First World war, circumstance of violent connection to Ukrainian SSR and deportations from Poland are investigated. The separate attention is given to historic and legal aspects of existence of Karpatorusins’ autonomy. The analysis of a situation with position of rusin minority in Independent territory Vojvodina (Serbia) is presented also. The modern ethnopolitical situation in Zakarpatye area and the national policy of the Ukrainian authorities concerning rusins is considered.
The group of authors is presented by scientists and public figures from five countries...

(en)  Hannes HOFBAUER (Austria)

My father was 17 years old, when he was told to put on a new uniform and to follow the military track towards the East. It took him some time to realize that World War II had begun. From one day to the other, it was no more the labour service that he was obliged to work in when his last school days were over, but the Wehrmacht he found himself put into. The attack on Poland began. All the decades later my father did not talk much about his expedition in the framework of the biggest aggression seen in the 20th century. Only when it came to discuss his captivity under Soviet control he told to his sons that he was fine with the Russians who guarded the camp.

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About 90 years ago, on June 4, 1920 the allies who won World War II and the defeated Hungary signed a peace treaty – the Treaty of Trianon - in the the Grand Trianon Palace in Versailles. Subcarpathian Rusyns, Slovaks, Romanians, Croats, Serbs, and the respective communities across the world rejoiced at the liberation from the protracted Hungarian domination. The treaty formalized the de facto situation in the Danube basin after the War. As a result, Hungary lost 2/3 of its former territory and population, including 3 mln. ethnic Hungarians, to other countries and stepped into an epoch of national tragedy and humiliation.

(cz) Josef GROUŠL

V ukrajinských volbách poražený Juščenko se 22. ledna zviditelnil. Stepanu Banderovi - zrádci národa, pomahači německých agresorů za druhé světové války - udělil titul Hrdina Ukrajiny .

Vrah, fašista, bojovník proti lidu Ukrajiny, Sovětského svazu, vrah volyňských Čechů, Poláků, Slováků je dodatečně oceňován prezidentem Ukrajiny.

On se snad zbláznil, píše Z. Chaloupka, jeden z účastníků bojů proti bandám banderovců na území ČSR v letech 1945 a dále. Ty se probíjely přes naše území do západního Německa k Američanům a Britům. Poláky vraždily uvedené teroristické bandy už před rokem 1939. Na nacionalistickém základě Banderova vojenská skupina vraždila i Ukrajince, kteří nepodlehli jejich nacionalismu.

(cz) Vojtěch FILIP, předseda ÚV KSČM, Vojtěch FILIP, předseda ÚV KSČM

Před týdnem ukrajinský prezident Viktor Juščenko posmrtně vyznamenal Stepana Banderu za obranu národní ideje a boj za nezávislý ukrajinský stát titulem Hrdina Ukrajiny. Obranu , která je spojena s masovým vražděním nevinných lidí!

Jsou chvíle, kdy končí veškeré taktizování a předstírání. Takový okamžik pro Viktora Juščenka nastal, když mu v polovině ledna ukrajinský národ vystavil v prvním kole prezidentských voleb účet za jeho vládnutí po tzv. oranžové revoluci: obdržel 5,45 % odevzdaných hlasů. Je to pravděpodobně nejhorší výsledek, kterého kdy úřadující prezident ve volbách dosáhl. A pak ve chvíli, kdy už neměl co ztratit, dal průchod svému bezuzdnému nacionalismu.

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Organizers of the conference: Cyril and Methodius Society of Transcarpathia, [Soym] of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia, National Council of the Ruthenians of Transcarpathia, the People's Council of the Subcarpathian Ruthenia.
Uzhgorod, November 26, 2009

Beginning: 12.00 Location: Hall of the Hotel "Visit"
Languages of the conference: Ukrainian, Russian, Ruthenian, and Slovak

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Preamble. In the 20th century the democratic society was focused on human rights, but at this point in the 2st century, at the UN level it had shifted from the protection of human rights to protection of the rights of peoples.Talks in Ukraine on Human Rights and European choice are insufficient, or have a speculative nature, provided there is being ignored the right of the Subcarpathian-Ruthenian people to implement their ethnic and civil identity in the socio-political and cultural sense.