While the media has focused on political and even military friction between Ukrainians and Russians, few have paid much attention to the status of other ethnic minorities living within Ukraine. Recently, while I was conducting research in Kyiv, I interviewed Denis Pilash, a left wing political activist who hails from the western region of Transcarpathia, also known as Ruthenia or Zakarpatts’ka Oblast’.
For the most part, ethnic minorities of Transcarpathia have gotten along with each other in recent years, though the area’s delicate social balance could be upset by outsiders like Putin and his nationalist right wing allies …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
