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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bringing together figures such as Nikifor, Andy Warhol and Jerzy Nowosielski, the exhibition ‘Forms of Presence: The Art of ...

When Oli Džupinková speaks to her audience on Slovakia’s most popular radio station from a Bratislava studio, an unwitting listener would never guess that Slovak is not her only mother tongue. She ...

At the heart of Europe, the Carpathian Mountains have sheltered countless cultures - from Dacians and Vlachs to Rusyns and Székelys. This is the story of the peoples who built history in the shadows ...

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 ...

Dykun returns to blogging with a post on the plight of Ukraine's Rusyns, who were recently recognized as an indigenous nationality of the Transcarpathian region.

The Rusyns are one of Europe’s most overlooked Slavic groups, living across the mountains of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania without ever having their own country. Often caught between ...