Vested dancers stomped, kicked and knee-bent through a ciceri, accompanied by a legato violin and twangy guitar. Hungry revelers clapped between forkfuls of halusky, a homemade noodle dish, and ...

We’re all familiar with the descendants of Eastern European ethnicities that populate Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties — Polish, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, and Carpatho-Rusyn. Wait. Carpatho ...

Growing up, Lýdia Budayová’s parents would only tell her stories and fairy tales in Slovak. In fact, she does not remember any books in Rusyn, though it was the language spoken in their household. Her ...

To John Righetti, there are few if any more misunderstood ethnic groups than the Carpatho-Rusyns. The group has a sizeable presence in Europe and North America, but use the term in front of almost ...

KYIV – The chief of Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU), Valentin Nalivaychenko, says that the separatist movement of the Transcarpathian Rusyns has no chance of success in Ukraine. Speaking to RFE ...

BELGRADE, December 25. /TASS/. The Ukrainian government is seeking to fully suppress, Ukrainianize and assimilate the Rusyns, a Slavic ethnic minority living in the sub-Carpathian region of Ukraine, ...

A typical Rusyn house in the Presov region, northeastern Slovakia (Dr. Michele Parvensky) PRAGUE, September 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Last week the Transcarpathian Oblast Council appealed to Ukraine's ...

Submitted photo.... Mike Vasilchek displays a sign for the Simply Slavic festival in downtown Youngstown. He has become a passionate preservationist of his Carpatho-Rusyn heritage. YOUNGSTOWN — Mike ...

This study discusses the basic characteristics of the national revival that has taken place among the Rusyns of East-Central Europe since the mid-1980s. The author accepts the view of Ernest Gellner ...