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Olena Duts'-Faifer / Helena Duж-Fajfer (Олена Дуць-Файфер) was born in 1960 to a family that was deported during the Vistula Operation. The family returned to the Lemko Region in 1961 and Duts'-Faifer grew up and received her elementary education there. At Jagiellonian University in Krakow she earned advanced degrees in Slavic philology, psychology, and art history, and a Ph. D. in East Slavic literature. Her revised doctoral thesis (2001) is a history of Lemko-Rusyn literature: Literatura іemkowska w drugiej polowie XIX in a pocz№tku XX wieku (Lemko Literature in the Second Half of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries).

Duts'-Faifer teaches language, literature, and ethnography in the program in Lemko-Rusyn studies at the Advanced School of Education in Krakow. In addition, she has been a leading figure in the Lemko national revival.

(de) (en) Sergej Sibirjakov
Im Internet finden Sie eine Menge von Materialen über die Republik Vorkarpatien Rus‘- Subkarphatien Rus‘, die in dem Region Transkarpatien verankert, existiert aber vor allem im virtuellen Raum. Aber was ist nähmlich ein Vorkarpatien Rus‘ – ein Teil von Russischer Welt oder ein Teil des Mitteleuropas? Wir interviewen Petr Getsko - den Ministerpräsident der formal noch nicht anerkannten Republik Vorkarpatien Rus‘:
- Petr Iwanowitsch, so verlohren die Ruthenen die Definition der eigenen Identität? Fast ein halbes Jahrhundert (seit dem Beitritt zur Sowjetunion im Jahre 1945) halten sie sich als die Ukrainer und dann plötzlich “erkannten die Fehler”und erklären eine separate ruthenische Nation?

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(He is pictured on the left). There has taken place a regular meeting of the Government of the Republic of Subcarpathian Rus, which was the rotation of personnel. At the meeting, it was decided on the recognition of the statehood of Abkhazia, Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transnistria. In addition, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Subcarpathian Rus was instructed to restore the registration of all political parties in Subcarpathian Ruthenia, closed down after the Galician coup in 1939. As one of the priorities of the Government of the Republic of Subcarpathian Ruthenia, there was mentioned opening soon representations of the Republic in Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, United States, Russia.

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Pyotr Ivanovich Getsko - the Prime Minister of the Republic of Subcarpathian Rus.He is pictured on the right.
He was born January 1st, 1965 in the village Kushnitsa, Irshava district, Transcarpathian region in the large family. He is the eighth youngest child.

In 1983, he was recruited to military service in the airborne troops. He served in the Baltic States and Moldova.

He is a Candidate for Master of Sport in Sambo(Martial Art). After serving in the army entered the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, , Department of Automation and Electronics, which he graduated with a degree of system engineer.

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Mikulin Vasily Ivanovich - the Head of the Peoples Council of Subcarpathian Rus

He was born on 3 October 1957 in in the village Olshany, Khust district in Transcarpathia. After Secondary education in Lviv forest institute, graduated from courses in hunting.
After compulsory military service in the army, he worked as a mechanic of Bushtino forest plant. He is the chairman of Tyachiv district society of hunters and fishermen since 1989 to date.
He is a Member of the Government of the Republic of Subcarpathian Rus, Chairman of Tyachiv District of Subcarpathian Ruthenians.
Currently is the Head of the Peoples Council of Subcarpathian Rus. He is married and has two children, a son and a daughter, and four grandchildren.