(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:...

(en) WCSR I  Resolution of the World Council (Svitova Rada) of Subcarpathian Ruthenians. Uzhgorod June 5, 2011. In anticipation of the 11^th World Congress of the Ruthenians, which will take place in Budapest, the World Council of Subcarpathian Ruthenians adopted an Open letter of appeal to the delegates and participants of the 11^th World Congress of the Ruthenians. From the time of the previous 10^th Ruthenian Congress, Ruthenian movement has passed difficult and crucial stage of its development. We have managed to combine and significantly expand a very wide range of constructive social forces, based on the values of patriotism, love for one’s native land and the people, in order to achieve the ultimate goal - establishment of independent parent sovereign state, common for all Ruthenians scattered in the world. 

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This photograph (see at read more) of the 1922 first communion group at St. Mary's Greek Catholic Church at 4949 S. Seeley Ave., offers a snapshot that includes ancestors of parishioners at two existing parishes, one Byzantine Catholic and one Orthodox.

By 1931, a substantial portion of the parish would leave to create St. Peter & St. Paul's Orthodox Church at 53rd and Western, which relocated in 1998 to Burr Ridge.

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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.

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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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This report by RussiaToday tells about modern life at the territory of the Subcarpathian Rus', the cultural and political life of this region.

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Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they did get it. Swift Hungarian columns darted northward over snow-choked roads through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off. Late the second day of the occupation, one frostbitten contingent reached the Polish border, where a Polish colonel ecstatically kissed the Hungarian commander while their troops embraced (see cut). Polish frontier guards welcomed the Hungarian soldiers as brothers and thawed them out in a guard station.