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The history of relations and connection between these territories and peoples has more than one century, but their level of importance is seen differently from various positions.
Today it is much more relevant to assess the perspective of the future relationship depending on the development of our cooperation. So far, we have presented three possible scenarios. Let us have a look at the worst one.

1. If Hungary cooperates with the current Ukrainian authorities in Transcarpathia-Subcarpathian Ruthenia, Ruthenian position towards Hungary from the day one would be the same as towards Ukraine, which is much worse than relation of Slovakia to the Hungarian issue is.

This is because the Ukrainian government in Transcarpathia-Subcarpathian Ruthenia is associated with all the troubles faced by Ruthenians, and today with the odious figure of V. Baloga and his clan as well. To date, the persecutions of the Ruthenian people are associated with his personality, since he was the head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. As if to confirm this, before the election he publicly renounced his ancestors.
All of his subsequent fraud of massive bribery of voters in Transcarpathia-Subcarpathian Ruthenia resulted in nothing; - he got just over 10% of the votes, but in reality hardly 5% of the votes. The recent scandal involving a deputy-paedophile is the most obvious and clear example of the moral degradation of party members of loser V. Baloga - United Centre.
Ruthenians always expressed negative attitude towards non-traditional sexual orientation. Besides, he was worthless as a business executive and a public official. It was during his regency that our region slid into an economic abyss. The number of labour migrants in Transcarpathia-Subcarpathian Ruthenia during this period increased by more than 200,000.
According to the website "Rospres” it was V. Baloga, who played the card of "new young fascists from All-Ukrainian Union "Svoboda", and, most importantly, offered organizational and financial support for the election of the nationalist party of Tyahnybok in western Ukraine.
It is equally important that the ideology of his party's UC is oligarchic fascism. It is almost like with the Galician All-Ukrainian Union “Svoboda”, whose objectives are Ukrainization of entire population, a single ideological interpretation of history => uniformity of thought, Russo-phobia and Rutheno-phobia, and some other issues. Indeed, if they united, they would create a threat to civil law in the region, particularly the rights of minorities. Ruthenians are still able to distinguish patriots from the Nazis, because infringement of the rights of Ruthenians, Hungarians and other ethnic minorities, not to mention the corruption of power, came from them. V. Baloga and his team are accused of the consequences of floods in Transcarpathia, because the clan of V. Baloga has been in power within the past 10 years. Talks about the unfortunate accident might have occurred in 1998, when this disaster happened for the first time. Subsequently, the floods occurred regularly, approximately every three years. Flood can be successfully controlled, certainly not after it has already begun, but in a pre-planned way, eliminating all the problem areas. Transcarpathia will be subject to flooding as long as they steal the money allocated for the construction of dams, because just a month ago, the regional authorities boasted of how successful they were at building dams, while the very first flood demolished these dams as if they were made of paper.
This suggests that these dams were poorly constructed; all that could be stolen was stolen, therefore, with such a leadership our Transcarpathia is stamped in floods, and will be stamped in the future.
On May 3, Institute of Mass Information and the Kyiv Independent Media Trade Union published a list of ten Ukrainian politicians and public figures, which tend to inhibit the activities of the media the most, reports Correspondent. net ". Eighth place went to Viktor Baloga - the former head of the secretariat of Viktor Yushchenko. He was included in the list because of his addiction to litigations with reporters. Transcarpathians avoid V. Baloga and his clan, as if they had a leper.

2. Hungary would place their bets on Transcarpathian Hungarians.
As it was very clearly observed, there is a prevalence of socio-economic trends over nationalist ones in the region. That is, two Transcarpathian Hungarian parties are actually copying their donors in Hungary: The Democratic Party of Hungarians of Ukraine (Istvan Gaydosh) - Socialist KMKS, Party of Hungarians of Ukraine (Miklos Kovacs) - Liberals, who are actively competing with each other inside Transcarpathia, therefore pushing nationalistic factor to the second place.
The results of the two Hungarian parties, which totalled 3.8%, are surprisingly low, - Democratic Party of Hungarians of Ukraine (15,351 people), and Transcarpathian regional organization of a political party KMKS "Party of Hungarians of Ukraine " (20,456 people). As a political force, Hungarians in Transcarpathia-Subcarpathian Ruthenia, with a population of just over 12% showed the results of only 3.8%!?
Incidentally, in Beregovo number of Roma increased by 76%, with an average regional index of 15%. In the early 90’s Transcarpathian Hungarians actively immigrated to Hungary, now the migration flow is more even. Current economic problems in Hungary affected its own people, not just our emigrants. Hungarian villages in Transcarpathia- Subcarpathian Ruthenia are perfectly healthy socially, full of youth, with normally functioning households. However, in most populated by Hungarians parts of Transcarpathia (Beregovo district and Beregovo), natural population decline is the largest in the region. Moreover, all this despite the fact that in the vast majority of districts of Transcarpathia there is a population growth.
Thus, this option is less painful than the previous one; however, in a very short period hostility threatens to escalate to the level of rejection, just as in the first option.

3. Hungary (as well as any other state) is working to resolve the Ruthenian question. The correct policy in the territory of the Ruthenians to the South of the Carpathians is a policy that suits the Ruthenians. Even perfect, super-tolerant, super-liberal, perfectly accepted by all except the Ruthenians in Transcarpathia-Subcarpathian Ruthenia policy, would be a bad policy, doomed to failure. For example, Ruthenians are not against dual citizenship, but on the other hand, they estimate present economic situation of Hungary and Ukraine, and Hungary and Slovakia.
They compare not only political, but also economic models. Imperial tendencies of Hungary are sidelined, as compared to the economic well-being, which is now main preoccupation of the Ruthenians, along with the socialization of the state.
Ukraine, refusing to recognize Ruthenians, a priori took the position of Galicia! Hungary and Slovakia recognized Ruthenians. Galician and pro-Galician forces, which are represented in the region by party clan of
V. Baloga, do not fit into any other schemes neither in the territory of the Ruthenians to the South of the Carpathians, nor in Hungary or Slovakia or in Poland and Romania.
At the same time, Ruthenians perfectly fit into Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Romanian, and many other communities. Central European countries should realize that without a compromise with the Ruthenians, there would be a foundation already at the start for such a relationship, as it is now between the Ruthenians and Ukrainians/Galicians, or between Slovakia and Hungary, which threatens to aggravate the situation even more. Therefore, anyway, to save face, Russia, Hungary, Slovakia... would have to not only recognize the legitimacy of the transition to the restoration of statehood in the territory of the Ruthenians to the South of the Carpathians - the Republic of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, but also recognize new leaders of Subcarpathian Ruthenia. We are faced with a very interesting lesson in democratic flexibility.