Carpathian Ruthenians demand recognition of them as separate nationality, autonomy

Ruthenians of the Trans Carpathian region in Ukraine demand to recognise them as a separate nationality and to be granted a status of autonomy through a dialogue with Kiev, Ruthenians’ leader Pyotr Getsko told TASS on Saturday.

Hungary's Orban urges western Ukraine autonomy. - Orban has granted dual citizenship to hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hungarians

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday renewed a controversial call for autonomy for his ethnic kin in western Ukraine, less than a week after sparking a diplomatic row with both Kiev and Warsaw.

"The full weight of the Hungarian state is behind the autonomy demands of the Transcarpathian Hungarians," Orban said in an interview on the M1 public television channel late Friday. Around 200,000 ethnic Hungarians live in Ukraine, almost all in the Transcarpathia region which belonged to Hungary before World War I.