Rusyns

Rusyns, also called Ruthenians, Ruthenes, Rusins, Rysins, Carpatho-Rusins, and Russniaks, are a modern group of ethnic groups that speak the Rusyn language and are descended from the Ruthenians that did not become Ukrainians in the 19th century.

External links

• The Rusyn Association Home Page
• The Carpatho-Rusyn Society
• Carpatho-Rusin American Collection
• Carpatho-Rusyn, Rusin, Ruthenia: Cross-Index
• Who Are We: Rusin, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak ...? by John Slivka
• Rusin Association of Minneapolis Minnesota Homepage
• "The people exist, the ethnicity does not. Some knowledge about the Carpathian Rusyns", Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), November 17-23, 2001. Available online in Russian and in Ukrainian
• 'Myhailo Tyvodar: "There is no need to prove that Transcarpathia is Ukrainian by spirit"', Zerkalo Nedeli (Mirror Weekly), April 6-12, 2002. Available online in Russian and in Ukrainian

Warning: While reading the sources listed above, as well as sources of Ukrainian and Polish origin, one has to be careful to recognize the underlying interest of each of these groups supporting their own national mythology by selective presentation of information and the inter- and extrapolations favorable to that mythos.

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