Rusyn or Ukrainian? Rusyn minority pushes for separate identity

From: Ukrainian Weekly, The | Date: November 26, 1995| Author: Khristina Lew | Copyright information


Ukrainian Weekly, The

11-26-1995

Rusyn or Ukrainian? Rusyn minority pushes for separate identity.

The wooden church perched on top of the steep hill overlooking this village of 130 inhabitants is Greek-Catholic, built by a Ukrainian architect in 1938. Bodruzal is a Rusyn village, said 53-year-old Vasyl Yurchshyn, explaining what the distinctly Ukrainian wooden cupolas are doing on the western side of the Carpathian Mountains. Mykhayil Yurchyshyn, 70, chided his...

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