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Radio Praha [13-03-2008 15:03 UTC] By Dominik Jůn Czech lawmakers have recommended that people forced to abandon their homes in Carpathian Ruthenia, when this part of Czechoslovakia was ceded to the Soviet Union at the end of WWII, be compensated. Estimates suggest that this may cost the Czech government as much as 1 billion crowns.In 1945, at the end of WWII, Czechoslovakia regained about a

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Sorry for the internet-silence. In the meantime, check out the new Rusyn Outpost network at ning!

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Miroslaw Nahacz was found dead yesterday, apparently having committed suicide. Nahacz was a Lemko from Gladyszow in the Beskid Niski but moved to Warsaw at an early age. He was a student of cultural studies at the University of Poland at the time of his death.Nahacz burst onto the Polish cultural scene in 2003 with the publication of his first novel, Osiem czery (Eighty Four), which won an award

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Il'ko: I don't believe that Rusyns from all over the world came to the World Congress. And where in Romania could they find such a big bar?Mesačník infoRUSÍN - č. 7-8, júl - august 2007

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23 June 2007, Maramorosh-Sighet1. The delegates of the 3rd World Forum of Rusyn Youth (SFRM) as its most important task recognizes the admission of two new members, Rusyn youth organizations from Croatia and Romania.2. We have taken the decision to create a website for the SFROM which would function as a press agency. And this activity will fall to groups of young people from various countries

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Uzhgorod, July 16, Interfax - The Ruthenians oppose plans to set up American NMD in Rovna and Stoj planes, the Ruthenian leader Archpriest Dimitry Sidor, speaker of the Sojm (Ruthenial national assembly) and rector of the Holy Cross cathedral in Uzhgorod, said.'Most Ruthenian groups decided to campaign for declaring Transcarpathia demilitarized zone, where only hotels and sanatoriums may be built

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13.07.2007 Zakarpattja.netUkrainian legislation does not allow recognition of the Rusyns of Transcarpathia as a separate nationality. The head of the State Committee on Matters of Nationality and Religion Heorhij Popov said at a press conference in Kyiv."Our Ukrainian legislation, I answer as the head of a state organ, does not define who constitutes a nationality, in what fashion, etc.," he

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Outpost Dispatch #2, November 2003According to eonline, the four Harry Potter books by J.K.Rowling have sold more than 110 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages, “including everything from Albanian to Zulu.” None of the books have been translated into any form of the Rusyn language, and they probably won’t be. However, that does not mean that there is no Rusyn

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Outpost Dispatch, Vol. 2, #4, September 2004The Rusyns were mentioned in one of the unlikeliest of places on 21 February: in an editorial on the website of Al-Jazeerah. The editorial, called “Nationality Question,” comments on the recent decision of the European Court of Human Rights to reject the claim of Sliesian activists in Poland to have their group declared a nationality. The article sets

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Ivan Sabadoš, Ruski Kerestur, Serbia, Outpost Dispatch #1, October 2003For you to be as clear as possible about just who Mirko Hornjak Kole is and what Stativa! was, we have to go back at least ten years, to the beginning of the 1990s. That was when the Kerestur punk scene arose from sweat, beer and blood like an unwanted child, sentenced to a stolen life without meaning or perspectives

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Il’ko, reading a newspaper headline about Iraq, ”Here, these inspectors would search in vain for weapons of mass destruction. All they’d find are empty bottles.” (Fedor Vico, Prešov, Slovakia. Originally appeared in Narodny Novynky on 6 August 2003.)

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Diane Hvasta, Tucson Outpost Dispatch #2, November 2003 Who would think that amid the remnants of the Wild West there would be a dedicated group of children and adults dancing and singing the beloved songs of the Rusyn people? Here in Arizona, where “ethnic” usually means the lively culture of the Mexicans and the story songs of the range cowboys, there also is the charming entertainment of

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Paul Robert Magocsi, ChairmanSighet, Romania, 22 June 2007May I begin by asking all of us to stand and observe a moment of silence for two of our members who have left this earthy life since our last congress in 2005: Vasyl’ Turok, former chairman of the Rusyn Renaissance Society in Slovakia and the first chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns; and Mikhal Varga, former chairman of the Ruska

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Paul Robert Magocsi, ChairmanSighet, Romania, 22 June 2007The delegation from North America represented in the World Congress comprises six organizations from the United States and Canada. These include the Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center in association with the Carpatho-Rusyn Society, the Carpathian Institute International, and the Rusin Association, all based in the United States, and the Rusyn

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Today, the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced that 22 sites have been added to its World Heritage List, including the Primeval Beech Forest of the Carpathians.With the new additions, the World Heritage List now includes 851 sites including 660 cultural, 166 natural and 25 mixed properties in 184 countries all around the world.The site stretches over

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Anna Romanenchuk, 27 June 2007Ukraine's Ombudsman for Human Rights, Nina Karpachova, is supporting the position of deputies of the Provincial Rada on the Rusyn question, which has become significant to many Transcarpathians.As Zakarpattja Online has already reported, having taken into account the wishes of the residents of Transcarpathia, the Transcarpathian Provincial Rada on 7 March this year

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Newly-elected World Council of Rusyn Youth President Slavko Zagorski of Poland (on the right). Zagorski is also the head of a new Rusyn youth organization, Czuha, based in Krakow. (from Lemkowyna.net)

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Maramures/Sighetu, 26 June 2007 (RuthenPress) – With a meeting of the newly-elected World Council on Sunday in the Romanian city Sighety, the three-day work of the 9th World Congress of Rusyns ended. The congress gathered more than 80 delegates and around 200 program participants and guests from nine countries of Europe and the North American continent.Nine representatives of Rusyn organizations

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On Saturday, 23 June, the Dukhnovych Prize was awarded to three young writers from Serbia – Slavko Vinaji, Natalija Ribovic and Ivan Medjesi – for their collection Triolohija (Novi Sad, 2006).The Dukhnovych Prize is given each year to honor and encourage Rusyn writers. The $1000 award was presented to the three poets at the Ninth World Congress of Rusyns and Third World Forum of Rusyn Youth in

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Maramorosh/Sighetu, 24 June 2007 (RuthenPress) – The Aleksander Duhnovyc Prize for the best book written in the Rusyn language in the last five years was awarded at the World Congress of Rusyns to three young authors from Serbia.A three-member jury chose a book of poetry by Natasa Ribovic, Slavko Vinaji and Ivan Medjesi, and jury member Vasilj Homa presented the award Saturday night in Sighetu.On

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SIGHETU, 23 June 2007 (RuthenPress) – With the reading of a letter of greetings from the Prime Minster of Romania and a welcoming speech by Sighetu Marmaţiei mayor Eugenii Godza, the plenary meeting of delegates and guests of the 9th World Congress of Rusyns began.The World Congress began on 21 June with the arrival of delegates and guests from ten countries: Hungary, Poland, the United States

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Don't tell me you're going to the World Congress of Rusyns in Rumania. If I know you, you'll get yourself some rum in the bar and that'll be your congress. Mesačník infoRUSÍN - č.6, jún 2007

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Programme of the 9th World Congress of Rusyns and the 3rd World Forum of Rusyn Youth21st June, 2007 (Thursday):After 12.00 – arrival of the participants at the Coroana hotel (Sighetu Marmaţiei, Piaţa Liberăţii, nr. 21), registration, check in.15.00 – 16.00 – the participants of the congress and guests from Ukraine in particular will be welcomed by the attending members of the World Council of

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The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) held its 52nd annual Assembly of Delegates from 16-20 May 2007 in Tallinn, Estonia, and after a pause of many years, Rusyns were on the agenda once again.The assembly’s Resolution 2007-03 calls on Ukraine to recognize the Carpatho-Rusyn minority in Transcarpathia, end “the violent assimilation” and to grant “equal legal rights to those of other

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From RuthenPress (Serbia)Ruski Kerestur, 19 June 2007 – The ninth World Congress of Rusyns and the Third World Forum of Rusyn Youth starts on Thursday, 21 June, in the Romanian town Sighet, Ruska Matka president Djura Papuga has told RuthenPress.The Ruska Matka delegation to the 9th World Congress, which runs through 24 June, is made up of its president, Djura Papuga; Ljubomir Dudas of Ruski

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Decision is a Milestone in Decades-Long Struggle of National Minority Group Washington, D.C., May 31, 2007 – A landmark decision of Ukraine’s Transcarpathian Oblast Council on March 7, 2007, officially recognized the Rusyn people as an indigenous nationality of the region. The council members, representing the oblast’s 1.2 million citizens, voted overwhelmingly to respond to the long-standing

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"Greek Catholic and Orthodox believers live here, but none of them believe anything anymore." From the April issue of InfoRusyn.

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From Friday through Monday, MoMA is featuring Four from "East of the West" – a mini-festival of films drawn from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.Founded in 1946l, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival is one of the oldest international film festivals in the world, and has become in recent years an important stop on the European festival circuit.On the

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The Vojvodina Rusyns’ youth organization Pakt Ruthenorum is organizing ”Summer in Kerestur,” an international summer camp in Ruski Kerestur, Serbia, from 17 to 30 July.“We want to entice as many young people in Kerestur as possible. Recently, we had the first promotional party for the camp, and soon this will be included in the activities of Volunteer Center Vojvodina, which is the camp’s main

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Vychodna Dolina, the female folk singing group of St Nicholas Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church in the East Village, is raising money to fund a trip abroad and is looking for support.The group will perform on 25 August at the 4th Annual Recognize and Preserve the Traditions of Your Ancestors Festival in Jarabina, Slovakia. The group is made up of 13 Rusyn singers from the New York City area, and

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On 14 April, the Association for the Study of Nationalities held its annual convention at Columbia University. On the program was a panel about Paul Robert Magocsi and the Rusyn movement: (more to come)

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MAK, a rare Rusyn pop culture magazine from Novi Sad, recently put up a new website at http://www.ruskeslovo.co.yu/. There are a few issues of the magazine, as well as a forum and other goodies - for example, you can download MP3s from MAK's pop/rock/punk CD, Naj zije Marshall.MAK's latest book, Obecana Zem (The Promised Land), is also there to be downloaded in .pdf format. The book is a short

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On 15 April, the Rusyn National Council in Serbia adopted official symbols for the local Rusyn minority. The coat of arms is the same as that of all Rusyns throughout the world. The flag, however, is the flag of the Republic of Serbia but instead of the Serbian national symbol in the middle, it has the Rusyn symbol. These symbols still have to be promulgated by the government of Serbia, but that

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Photo is a screenshot - click on http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2007-03-23 to get other resolutions of the photo. Thanks, Rich!

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A street in Sofia, Bulgaria, is named after Jurij Venelin, a Rusyn who was the first to prove that the Bulgarians were in fact Slavs.Venelin was also recently featured in the Journal of Slovene Studies in Raymond H. Miller's paper "Venelin and the Slovenes." Venelin was also the first to call the Slovenes "Slovenes." Previously, they were known by local ethnonyms like Carinthians (Korosci) and

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Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 11:33 GMT EU fuels western Ukraine boom By Helen Fawkes / BBC News, western UkraineDominated by the Carpathian Mountains, the region of Transcarpathia in western Ukraine looks stunning, but for years this was one of the poorest parts of Europe.Now it is being transformed.The European Union has expanded again by taking another two countries - Bulgaria and Romania - which

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Status of Rusyns not determinedby Elisabeth Sewall, Assistant EditorKyiv Post, 25 January 2007Despite having been granted official minority status by Slovakia and Poland, the Rusyns, a little-known ethnic group inhabiting the vicinity of the Carpathian Mountains, are still awaiting recognition from Kyiv, which considers them to be a Ukrainian subgroup.Kyiv’s reluctance and the persistence of

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This past August, Czech-based theatre troupe Farm in the Cave performed its show Sclavi / The Song of an Emigrant at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the UK, earning a number of awards (check out, for example, the Financial Times review). The show premiered in Prague in March 2005, and will run in Vienna this June.The show comes straight out of Rusyn culture and history: Putting the show together

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On Wednesday, NJ.com featured "An Overflowing Bounty of Beauty," the latest entry in the series of architecture columns by John Gomez. The article presents SS. Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church (109 Grand Street) in Jersey City, which has recently undergone some renovation. Gomez writes: “The proud parish, readying for its centennial, prepares to look back on the origins of its own story,

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At the Ljubljana City Museum, the exhibit on the city's history includes mention of the Rusyns on a label for a jacket from an infantry uniform from the Austrian Empire in World War I: "Of every 100 soldiers in Franz Josef's I army, 29 were Germans, 19 Hungarians, 15 Czechs, 9 Poles, 8 Russians, 7 Serbs and Croats, 5 Romanians, 5 Slovakians, 3 Slovenes and 1 Italian."The English says "Russian"

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Maria Silvestri reports from a fieldtrip to Philadelphia that the Mütter Museum at the Philadelphia College of Physicians has – really – four Rusyn skulls on display.The skulls are part of a collection used by the Viennese anatomist Doctor Joseph (Jozef) Hyrtl to disprove phrenology, a pseudo-science that claimed that a person’s character and personality (and criminal impulses) could be

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Rusyn pop music was celebrated with its first festival in Slovakia, in Svidnik on 17 November. There were many performers and a number of prizes were given out in various categories. The star of the show, however, was the band ČUMzBAGERA, fronted by Jozef Keselica. They performed songs such as "Stara baba," and "Rusnak," about the Rusyn emigration.The event was organized by Rusyn'ska obroda in

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Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) based in The Hague, Netherlands, with a coordination office in Tartu, Estonia, has one Rusyn member: Rusyn'ska Obroda (Slovakia) European Federation of Maisons de Pays (EFMP) based in Antibes, France, has three Rusyn members: Rusyn’ska Obroda (Slovakia); Ruska Matka (Serbia); Carpatho-Rusyn Society (Ukraine) Federal Union of European

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CEE PhotoFund of Humenne, Slovakia, has organized “Rusyns – Lost Homes,” a photo documentary project about the Rusyns displaced from eastern Slovakia when the Starina Dam was built in 1980.Rusyns were displaced from the villages of Starina, Dara, Ruske, Smolnik, Velka Polana, Ostruznica and Zvala.Included in the project are archival family photographs and films, which show how life used to be in

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From September 2005 to October 2006, 6 issues of the cultural-political magazine for youth MAK were published in Serbia.MAK – Mladosc Aktivnosc Kretivnosc (Youth Activity Creativity) is a magazine for young Rusyns in Vojvodina, founded in the early 70s as a magazine for young communists. Today, MAK is one of the rare modern, sub-cultural Rusyn magazines.In January 2006, MAK published its first

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Today, 5 December, marks the 88th anniversary of the founding of the Lemko Rusyn Republic (Ruska narodna respublika Lemkiv) in the village of Florynka. The republic was led by Jaroslav Kachmarchyk and lasted for 16 months in the final throes of the First World War. It roughly covered the western half of Lemko Rusyn ethnographic territory.The Lemko Rusyn Republic did not necessarily have

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In Washington, D.C., on 15-17 November 2006, during a three-day visit to diplomatic missions in the United States, chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns, Professor Paul Robert Magocsi, together with a delegation of Rusyn-American community activists, was received by the embassies of Romania, Ukraine, Serbia, and the Vatican. Other members of the delegation were from the Carpatho-Rusyn Society

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From the World Academy of Rusyn Culture:ARCHITECTUREECONOMYEDUCATION AND SCHOLARSHIPETHNOGRAPHYGENEALOGYGEOGRAPHYHISTORYLANGUAGELITERATUREMUSICPOLITICSRELIGIONTHEATREVISUAL ARTSOrder the Encyclopedia of Rusyn Culture and History from Amazon.com

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Latest posts:Czech (and Rusyn!) Modernism on FilmKoliada: Winter Rituals in the CarpathiansHappy Andy Warhol-idays!Rusyn archive on Slavs of New York

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PRAGUE, September 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Last week the Transcarpathian Oblast Council appealed to Ukraine's president, prime minister, and parliamentary speaker to grant Rusyns in the region an official status of ethnic minority (nationality).Rusyns, who live in a more or less compact territory in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland, are officially recognized as a minority by Bratislava and Warsaw, while

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Resolution of the VII World Congress of Rusyns in Krynica, Poland, 25 June 2005.We call on those states where Rusyns live and which have not yet adopted a law on national minorities to adopt such a law and to provide sufficient funding as soon as possible. We call on the government of the Republic of Poland to recognize Akcja Wisla as being illegal and to correct its effects. Its 60th anniversary

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Serencza means luck Roman Dzubina, Kurier Gorlicki, No. 3/2003 (112), March 2003. Page 5.The article profiles the Lemko band Serencza. The band's name is a Lemko archaism meaning "luck," and was formed in the fall of 1997 by Roman Korbicz, Piotr Kwolka and Mirko Trochanowskij. The group plays Lemko folk music, but with a twist - they rework the songs into a variety of styles, from ancient to

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What would Andy Warhol think of a museum celebrating his art and birthday? Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5 August 2003.Warhol went own way early. Bennard B. Perlman, The Baltimore Sun, 6 August 2003.Fans celebrate Andy Warhol's birthday. CNN.com, 6 August 2003.V Medzilaborciach oslavuju nedozite 75. narodeniny Andyho Warhola, Korzar, 7 August 2003.Andy Warhol: Cult of Personality in his Ancestral

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A recently formed group creating a Rusyn youth organization for North America needs your help!Young Rusyns in Slovakia have their Association of Rusyn Youth of Slovakia, those in Serbia have Pakt Rutenorum, in Poland, Jar'/Spring and in Ukraine, Youth of Subcarpathia...and now it's time for North America to join them.Right now we are trying to identify as many young Rusyns throughout the United

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Youth for European NationalitiesYouth for European Nationalities is an union of European Youth Associations. Each member organisation represents one of Europe�s minorities and they are joined in their aim to work for the interest of minorities. Together we strive after the creation of a dynamic and vital network of minority youth associations in a multicultural and polyglot Europe. In the focus

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Juraj Jakubisko�s statement to the World Forum of Rusyn YouthRead by Anna KuznakovaI am awfully happy that there were, are and will still be Rusyns in the world!I am happy that Andy Warhol was a Rusyn, that I am a Rusyn. You are Rusyns and everyone at this congress are Rusyns! We simply are here in this world, and we are leaving traces behind us of which we can be proud...I sincerely congratulate

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Declaration of the First World Forum of Rusyn YouthWe young Rusyns, who have met in the context of the 7th World Congress of Rusyns in Presov at the first historic World Forum of Rusyn Youth on 8 June 2003 in the historic hall of the Aleksander Duhnovyc Theatre, hereby declare:We proudly align ourselves and are aware of the fact that we belong to the separate Rusyn nation, which henceforth has

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Resolution of the First World Forum of Rusyn YouthThe World Forum of Rusyn Youth, which met in Presov on 8 June 2003, makes the following Resolution:1. Young Rusyns will propagate their activities through radio, television, the internet and other media.2. The World Council of Rusyn Youth (SRRM) will support the efforts of Rusyns in Subcarpathia towards the official recognition of the Rusyn

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Resolution of the Delegates of the 7th World Congress of Rusyns, 7 June 2003, in PrešovWe accept the report of the President of the World Council of Rusyns Aleksander Zozuljak on his activities since the last, sixth, World Congress of Rusyns, in Prague in 2001.We express dissatisfaction with the relocation the main editorial office of the national-ethnic broadcasts of Slovak Radio from Prešov to

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Jar� hosts Rusyn youth in KrakowOn 14 and 15 March, the preparatory committee for the World Forum of Rusyn Youth met in Krakow, Poland. Unfortunately, only delegations from Poland, Slovakia and Ukraine managed to arrive. The Serbian delegation was unable to attend due to the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran �in�i� just days before; the Russians could not come due to the cost of the

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Mi�dzynarodowy zjazd �emk�wKongres w PreszovieGazeta Krakowska, 15 March 2003.Do niedzieli potrwa w Krakowie kongres m�odzie�y �emkowskiej z Polski, S�owacji i Ukrainy. Organizatorem zjazdu jest �emkowska M�odzie�owa Organizacja Jar, kt�rej prezesuje Damian Trochanowski.- Przygotowywa� b�dziemy I �wiatowe Forum Rusi�skiej M�odzie�y na S�owacji, kt�re odb�dzie si� w czerwcu w Preszovie - m�wi

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New Rusyn Times: Interview with Demko Trochanovskij, the Youngest Delegate at the World CongressThe latest New Rusyn Times features an interview with Trochanovskij, an 18-year old Lemko activist from Poland. Trochanovskij describes the Rusyn influences on his childhood, as well as his participation in the ensemble "Seren�a." The ensemble performs Lemko songs in modern arrangements."We're happy

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Novi MAK: Virtuelne Rusnacstvo: Interview with Havrijil Koljesar, RDSAAn interview with Gavrijil Koljesar in which he points out that the internet has made Rusyn-language materials available to Rusyns with internet connections living anywhere in the world. It is a major part of the lives of young Rusyns living abroad who want to maintain contact with their roots. It is one of the Rusyns� � and

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Novi MAK: Rock�n�Roll na HumnjeIvan Sabado��s �Rock�n�Roll na Humnje,� from MAK�s third issue, discusses Ruski Kerestur�s punk rock movement in the early 1990s.�Insofar as punk defines itself as an allergic reaction to negative socio-economic tremors which happen at some time or another in every society, I maintain that our dear Kerestur, at least as far as this question goes, at that time for

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Besida: Jak sja nam �krutil� fil�m o akcyi �Visla'Andrzej Kopcza describes his work on a low-budget independent film about Akcija Wisla in Poland. Kopcza wanted to finish the film for the 50th anniversary of Akcija Wisla, in 1997. By July of that year, he had cameraman, actors (all Lemkos from the Lemko theatre in Legnica) and was ready to film. However, that summer saw a major flood across

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Novi MAK: Novinarstvo na �arnoMirko Hornjak Kole provides an overview of the development of Rusyn-langauge fanzines in Ruski Kerestur, Kocur and elsewhere in the Vojvodina.At Novi MAK

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Novi MAK: U Meno NarodaAleksandra Dudas�s extensive article �U Meno Naroda� thrusts Rusyns� attitudes towards sex into the spotlight. She sought out comments from an entire spectrum of people � from the 28 year old editor of Dečko to the 42 year old director of the Ruske Slovo publishing house to a 64 year old writer and a 72 year old lawyer.Аt Novi MAK

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Narodny Novynky: Molody Rusyny sja Strityly v KomlosciPetro Krajanjak describes the first-ever World Rusyn Summer Camp, held from 21-25 August 2002 in the Rusyn village Komloska, Hungary. Young Rusyns from Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia and Russia gathered to prepare for the upcoming World Forum of Rusyn Youth. The World Forum will be held in Presov, Slovakia, on 7 June 2003.

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Magiczne KarpatyReview/Overview:In 1998 multi-instrumentalist Marek Styczynski and singer Anna Nacher started a new project, named Projekt Karpaty Magiczne. The group released the debut album Ethnocore (Fly Music, 1999), the soundtrack to a play, Ksiega Utopii/ The Book Of Utopia (Obuh, 1999) and Denega (Obuh, 2000), a recording based on samples of Baltic seals and other marine sounds. The Magic

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ElectrocarpathiansSan Diego, California�as far as you can get from Ellis Island without leaving the 48 contiguous states. How many gigs can a band that plays polkas and freylakhs hope to get? The institutions of San Deigo�s older Eastern European communities � Jewish, Armenian, Hungarian, Polish � have less in connection with the Old Country than their counterparts east of the Mississippi. The

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Elvira�s Haunted HillsThe setting is Carpathia.The year is 1851.Elvira's dreams of performing in the Parisian Revue, "Yes I Can-Can" are put on hold when she accidently winds up in a mysterious, medievel castle inhabited by the bizarre and sinister Lord Hellsubus.Homepage includes photos, script excerpts and the movie trailer.

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Remarks, VI World Congress of RusynsPaul Robert Magocsi�May I therefore share a few thoughts about what I believe should be the task of the World Congress during its next ten-year cycle. These tasks can be grouped into three categories: (1) administrative matters; (2) youth; and (3) civic activity.�With regard to the second task, youth, I would propose that the World Congress take the initiative

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New York Press: Ukrainian East Village: A Shortened Oral History of an Immigrant NeighborhoodRoksolana Luchkan & Andrey Slivka, Volume 14, Issue 22 - 5/30/2001Deals with the history of the Ukrainian community of New York�s East Village, which included and still includes many Lemkos and other Rusyns.

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Slovak Spectator: Slovakia's Warhol museum hobbles to tenth anniversaryBy Matthew J. Reynolds, 12 February 2001As a travelling Andy Warhol exhibition hits Bratislava this month, a museum devoted to the pop artist in the opposite corner of Slovakia struggles towards its 10th anniversary.Located in a crumbling city of 7,000 in north-east Slovakia, the Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art in

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The Imaginary Rusyn UndergroundZvolo�: Svidnik Underground HomeA new Slovak-language website dedicated to "imaginary Svidnik underground culture" hit the internet recently. The site is called Zvolo�, which in the local Slovak dialect means "rabble."Svidnik, in northeastern Slovakia, is home to a sizable Rusyn minority, and the site clearly reflects this. One of the site's pages is dedicated to

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Kerestur's United PartyYUGOSLAVIA, 3 June 2002. Ruski Kerestur's Rusyn and Ukrainian groups joined forces on 10 May to host the United Party, an invitation-only cocktail party designed to show that the two groups can rise above their differences and cooperate towards common goals. More than 50 people attended the party, which lasted until 4 a.m.Five groups joined in: Ruska Matka's Youth Forum,

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Ruske Slovo: From the Editor: To Know, and To Be AbleIn his letter from the editor, Ljubomir Rama� takes up two issues chairman of the Commission for Information of the Skup�tina (Assembly) of the AP Vojvodina �or�e Suboti� recently pointed out concerning the media: the need to involve more young people in the media, and self-censorship among journalists.On the surface, the first problem is not

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Rusalka: First Independent Rusyn Youth EventThis year's Med�ilabirce 40th Festival of Culture and Sport will feature the first major event organized by the Rusyn Youth Movement of Slovakia, a concert entitled "Rusyn National Song in the Lives of Young People." The concert will be held on 30 June 2002 as the final event of the festival.Prague's IGNIS will perform, along with the Med�ilabirce

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Ruske Slovo: Author of a Site Linking Rusyns around the WorldAleksander Palancanin interviews Miroslav Siladij of Verbas, who runs the website

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Atila Kova�After Andy Warhol, the best-known gay Rusyn is quite possibly Atila Kova�, who made news in Yugoslavia and throughout Eastern and Central Europe in the fall of 2001 when he launched De�ko, Serbia�s first monthly mainstream gay magazine.Kova�, who is of Rusyn and Hungarian ethnicity, has become better known to Serbia's Rusyn community primarily through the magazine Novi MAK, which ran

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From the Carpatho-Rusyn Society: Calling C-RS Rusyn Youth to represent us at the World Forum of Rusyn Youth Make history! For the first time since at least the 1940s, Rusyn Youth from around the world will gather together to begin to develop their skills to become the leaders of tomorrow�s Rusyn community. The first-ever World Congress of Rusyn Youth will be held June 8 in Presov, Slovakia. And

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Andy Warhol monument unveiled in SlovakiaSee Korzar (in Slovak)and Sme (also in Slovak)

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Andy Warhol puts stamp on the world -- again Saturday, August 10, 2002By Adrian McCoyThe often-repeated serial images of famous faces or commercial products in Andy Warhol's art mirrored a culture of mass production. Imagine what a kick he would have had out of seeing one of his paintings reproduced millions of times -- 61 million to be exact.From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Roots and Cyberspace: Linking the Ruthenian DiasporaPaper given by Daniel Winfree Papuga at the conference "Postkommunismens Antropologi", 12-14 April 1996, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen..."Is there a difference between the imagination of the diasporic community as represented by printed media, and that of the �virtual community� of the web? I would say that the answer is

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Kinoeye.orgEnglish Or in RussianOr in Polish

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Fedor Vico was born on November 9, 1944 in Eastern Slovakia. Graduate of the Vocational School of Bratislava (1962), where he majored in wood carving. His cartoons began to be published since he bacame 15, at first in a satirical magazine "Rohach", but gradually began to appear in various other domestic and foreign publications.Fedor Vico has participated in many exhibits and competitions, where

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Cyberruthenia!This is Cyber Ruthenia. Home of Cyber Ruthenians. We lost our country and became citizens of Atlantis. We don't have a physical land, but we do have nationality, and we are giving CR citizenships and CR passports. Because this is Atlantis, we are allowing double and triple citizenships. If you feel Ruthenian, you are welcome to apply for CR citizenship, regardless of your current

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Ivan Petrovcij on the internetTranscarpathian Rusyn writer Ivan Petrovcij has a new(ish) website. Contains excerpts from his book, Na�i Spivanky, as well as an open letter to Paul Robert Magosci and other resources.Visit the siteRead Na�i Spivanky

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Disko Lemko!"Anichka" - sung by Anna Cheberenchyk of LvivLemko folk songs - sung to modern beat.Several .ram files available.On Lemko.org

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Former Yugoslav Rusyn Media: Novi MAKYoung Rusyns in the Vojvodina run this magazine, which frequently covers pop culture topics.Visit Novi MAK

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Declaration of the VI World Congress of Rusyns (Prague, 2001)The Congress praises: The discussion of the work of the World Council of Rusyns since the last congress held from 25-26 June 1999 In Užhorod.The election of a new World Council of Rusyns: [members]The acceptance of the membership as a member of the World Congress of Rusyns the German-Rusyn Friendship Society of Munich, and after its

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Declaration of the V World Congress of Rusyns (Užhorod, 1999)During the period before the VI World Congress of Rusyns, we resolve to take the following steps:The World Council of Rusyns must create a plan of work for the World Congress of Rusyns. The World Council of Rusyns and its president must make diplomatic contacts with European and international organizations and with the governments of

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From 29 May to 1 June, 1997 the Fourth World Congress of Rusyns was held in Budapest, Hungary. Delegates to this gathering accepted the following report:The World Congress of Rusyns declares that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Poland, and the Slovak Republic have acknowledged Rusyns as an distinct nationality. We regretfully state that Ukraine has not

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Presov Slovakia 2003 (Resolution) (Declaration)Krynica Poland 2005Sighet Romania 2007 (Resolution)

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I. Medzilabirce Czechoslovakia 1991II. Legnica Poland 1993III. Ruski Kerestur Yugoslavia 1995IV. Budapest Hungary 1997V. Uzhorod Ukraine 1999 VI. Prague Czech Republic 2001 Remarks, Paul Robert MagocsiVII. Presov Slovakia 2003VIII. Krynica Poland 2005IX. Sighet Romania 2007Report of North American Delegation, Paul Robert MagocsiReport of World Council of Rusyns, Paul Robert Magocsi

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