Transcarpathia

And after the war they annexed Subcarpathian Ruthenia (that's how they call Transcarpathia here.

Robert Amsterdam 2009

And after the war they annexed Subcarpathian Ruthenia (that's how they call Transcarpathia here.

Robert Amsterdam 2009

And after the war they annexed Subcarpathian Ruthenia (that†™ s how they call Transcarpathia here. †"Yu.

Robert Amsterdam 2009

And after the war they annexed Subcarpathian Ruthenia (that†™ s how they call Transcarpathia here. †"Yu.

Robert Amsterdam 2008

But if you're looking from Moscow or Kiev, it's on the "other side" of the mountains, hence "Transcarpathia"!)

Robert Amsterdam 2009

But if you're looking from Moscow or Kiev, it's on the "other side" of the mountains, hence "Transcarpathia"!)

Robert Amsterdam 2009

The stalemate between the historically distinct regions of pro-Western Galicia, Transcarpathia, Volhynia and Bukovina, on the one side, and of pro-Russian Eastern and Southern Ukraine, on the other, has meant that the country's political landscape has become, asLucan Way put it, "pluralistic by default."

Democratic Ukraine, Autocratic Russia: Why? 2009

As a child, until 1914, she had been a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; between 1919 and 1938, Uzhgorod was the capital of Ruthenia, an autonomous province of Czechoslovakia; during World War II, the region was occupied by the Nazis, who gave it to their satrapy Hungary; after the war, the U.S.S.R. annexed the area, and Uzhgorod became the administrative center of Transcarpathia, the southwesternmost province of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

Resentments in Ukraine's own "border-lands" are growing, for example in the region known as Novaya Rossiia (New Russia), where ethnic Russians make up between 20 and 45 percent of the local population, and even more so in Transcarpathia.

'Not So Free at Last' Potichnyj, Peter J. 1993

But that doesn't seem to be the only place in the Ukraine with some ethnic nationalism issues, and a new report we've translated from Izvestiya after the jump tells the story of Moscow's possible assistance to the Ruthenians - an ethnic group located in Transcarpathia, the western-most Oblast of the country, near the Polish, Slovakian, Hungarian, and Romanian borders.

Robert Amsterdam 2009